Using sprintf() with a non-literal string makes some compiler complain when building with -Wformat-security (eg. clang reports "format string is not a string literal (potentially insecure)").
Here sprintf() format parameter is indirectly a literal string so there is no security issue. Nevertheless adding a "%s" format string to silent the warning helps to detect real bugs in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_li...@m4x.org> --- drivers/media/pci/tw686x/tw686x-core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/tw686x/tw686x-core.c b/drivers/media/pci/tw686x/tw686x-core.c index 71a0453b1af1..336e2f9bc1b6 100644 --- a/drivers/media/pci/tw686x/tw686x-core.c +++ b/drivers/media/pci/tw686x/tw686x-core.c @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ static const char *dma_mode_name(unsigned int mode) static int tw686x_dma_mode_get(char *buffer, struct kernel_param *kp) { - return sprintf(buffer, dma_mode_name(dma_mode)); + return sprintf(buffer, "%s", dma_mode_name(dma_mode)); } static int tw686x_dma_mode_set(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp) -- 2.10.2