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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 12:12:29 -0800
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: william.c.roberts@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
apw@...onical.com, Andew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: keescook@...omium.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add warning on %pk instead of %pK usage
On Fri, 2017-02-10 at 11:37 -0800, william.c.roberts@...el.com wrote:
> From: William Roberts <william.c.roberts@...el.com>
>
> Sample output:
> WARNING: %pk is close to %pK, did you mean %pK?.
> \#20: FILE: drivers/char/applicom.c:230:
> + printk(KERN_INFO "Could not allocate IRQ %d for PCI Applicom device. %pk\n", dev->irq, pci_get_class);
There isn't a single instance of this in the kernel tree.
Maybe if this is really useful, then all the %p<foo> extensions
should be enumerated and all unknown uses should have warnings.
Something like:
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index ad5ea5c545b2..8a90b457e8b5 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5305,6 +5305,15 @@ sub process {
}
}
+# check for vsprintf extension %p<foo> misuses
+ if ($line =~ /\b$logFunctions\s*\(.*$String/) {
+ my $format = get_quoted_string($line, $rawline);
+ if ($format =~ /(\%[\*\d\.]*p(?![\WFfSsBKRraEhMmIiUDdgVCbGN]).)/) {
+ WARN("VSPRINTF_POINTER_EXTENSION",
+ "Invalid vsprintf pointer extension '$1'\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+ }
+
# check for logging continuations
if ($line =~ /\bprintk\s*\(\s*KERN_CONT\b|\bpr_cont\s*\(/) {
WARN("LOGGING_CONTINUATION",
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