From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] objtool: Fix NULL printf() '%s' argument
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:10:14 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250326151014.6a006c93@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a814ed8b08fb410be29498a20a5fbbb26e907ecf.1742952512.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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Hi Josh,
On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 18:30:37 -0700 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> It's probably not the best idea to pass a string pointer to printf()
> right after confirming said pointer is NULL. Fix the typo and use
> argv[i] instead.
>
> Fixes: c5995abe1547 ("objtool: Improve error handling")
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20250326103854.309e3c60@canb.auug.org.au
> Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
> ---
> tools/objtool/builtin-check.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c b/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c
> index 2bdff910430e..e364ab6345d3 100644
> --- a/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c
> +++ b/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c
> @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ static void save_argv(int argc, const char **argv)
> for (int i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
> orig_argv[i] = strdup(argv[i]);
> if (!orig_argv[i]) {
> - WARN_GLIBC("strdup(%s)", orig_argv[i]);
> + WARN_GLIBC("strdup(%s)", argv[i]);
> exit(1);
> }
> };
> --
> 2.48.1
>
Thanks. I have applied this to the merge of the tip tree (which
include the tip-fixes tree) in linux-next today. It fixes the build
failure for me. I will apply it to the merge of the tip-fixes tree
tomorrow unless it has already been applied by then.
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-26 4:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-26 1:30 [PATCH] objtool: Fix NULL printf() '%s' argument Josh Poimboeuf
2025-03-26 4:10 ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2025-03-26 7:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2025-03-26 13:13 ` Stephen Rothwell
2025-03-26 7:31 ` [tip: objtool/urgent] objtool: Fix NULL printf() '%s' argument in builtin-check.c:save_argv() tip-bot2 for Josh Poimboeuf
2025-03-27 11:06 ` tip-bot2 for Josh Poimboeuf
2025-03-28 13:48 ` tip-bot2 for Josh Poimboeuf
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