Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qjson.h: Remove spurious GCC_FMT_ATTR markup from qobject_from_json() declaration

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

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On 02/26/2014 04:51 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> The function qobject_from_json() doesn't actually allow its
> argument to be a format string -- it passes a NULL va_list*
> to qobject_from_jsonv(), and the parser code will then never
> actually intepret %-escape sequences (it tests whether the
> va_list pointer is NULL and will stop with a parse error).
> 
> The spurious attribute markup causes clang warnings in some
> of the test cases where we programmatically construct JSON
> to feed to qobject_from_json():
> 
>  tests/test-qmp-input-visitor.c:76:35: warning: format string is not a
>  string literal (potentially insecure) [-Wformat-security]
>     data->obj = qobject_from_json(json_string);
>                                   ^~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Remove the incorrect attribute.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
>  include/qapi/qmp/qjson.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

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