[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 115/128] ftrace/scripts: Fix incorrect use of sprintf in recordmcount

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Sun Jan 24 22:01:10 UTC 2016


3.16.7-ckt23 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>

commit 713a3e4de707fab49d5aa4bceb77db1058572a7b upstream.

Fix build warning:

scripts/recordmcount.c:589:4: warning: format not a string
literal and no format arguments [-Wformat-security]
    sprintf("%s: failed\n", file);

Fixes: a50bd43935586 ("ftrace/scripts: Have recordmcount copy the object file")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1451516801-16951-1-git-send-email-colin.king@canonical.com

Cc: Li Bin <huawei.libin at huawei.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 scripts/recordmcount.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.c b/scripts/recordmcount.c
index d6e6cc43d8af..56f497b27c49 100644
--- a/scripts/recordmcount.c
+++ b/scripts/recordmcount.c
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 			do_file(file);
 			break;
 		case SJ_FAIL:    /* error in do_file or below */
-			sprintf("%s: failed\n", file);
+			fprintf(stderr, "%s: failed\n", file);
 			++n_error;
 			break;
 		case SJ_SUCCEED:    /* premature success */




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