Add some warnings for using ethtool_sprintf() where a simple
ethtool_puts() would suffice.

The two cases are:

1) Use ethtool_sprintf() with just two arguments:
|       ethtool_sprintf(&data, driver[i].name);
or
2) Use ethtool_sprintf() with a standalone "%s" fmt string:
|       ethtool_sprintf(&data, "%s", driver[i].name);

The former may cause -Wformat-security warnings while the latter is just
not preferred. Both are safely in the category of warnings, not errors.

Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinst...@google.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 25fdb7fda112..6924731110d8 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -7011,6 +7011,25 @@ sub process {
                             "Prefer strscpy, strscpy_pad, or __nonstring over 
strncpy - see: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90\n"; . $herecurr);
                }
 
+# ethtool_sprintf uses that should likely be ethtool_puts
+               if ($line =~ 
/\bethtool_sprintf\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\)/) {
+                       if (WARN("PREFER_ETHTOOL_PUTS",
+                                "Prefer ethtool_puts over ethtool_sprintf with 
only two arguments\n" . $herecurr) &&
+                           $fix) {
+                               $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ 
s/\bethtool_sprintf\s*\(\s*($FuncArg)\s*,\s*($FuncArg)/ethtool_puts($1, $7)/;
+                       }
+               }
+
+               # use $rawline because $line loses %s via sanitization and thus 
we can't match against it.
+               if ($rawline =~ 
/\bethtool_sprintf\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*\"\%s\"\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\)/) {
+                       if (WARN("PREFER_ETHTOOL_PUTS",
+                                "Prefer ethtool_puts over ethtool_sprintf with 
standalone \"%s\" specifier\n" . $herecurr) &&
+                           $fix) {
+                               $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ 
s/\bethtool_sprintf\s*\(\s*($FuncArg)\s*,\s*"\%s"\s*,\s*($FuncArg)/ethtool_puts($1,
 $7)/;
+                       }
+               }
+
+
 # typecasts on min/max could be min_t/max_t
                if ($perl_version_ok &&
                    defined $stat &&

-- 
2.43.0.rc2.451.g8631bc7472-goog

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