include, lib: add __printf attributes to several function prototypes

Using __printf attributes helps to detect several format string issues
at compile time (even though -Wformat-security is currently disabled in
Makefile).  For example it can detect when formatting a pointer as a
number, like the issue fixed in commit a3fa71c40f18 ("wl18xx: show
rx_frames_per_rates as an array as it really is"), or when the arguments
do not match the format string, c.f.  for example commit 5ce1aca81435
("reiserfs: fix __RASSERT format string").

To prevent similar bugs in the future, add a __printf attribute to every
function prototype which needs one in include/linux/ and lib/.  These
functions were mostly found by using gcc's -Wsuggest-attribute=format
flag.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
index 2d61b909f414..637f67002c5a 100644
--- a/include/linux/kobject.h
+++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
@@ -80,8 +80,9 @@ struct kobject {
 
 extern __printf(2, 3)
 int kobject_set_name(struct kobject *kobj, const char *name, ...);
-extern int kobject_set_name_vargs(struct kobject *kobj, const char *fmt,
-				  va_list vargs);
+extern __printf(2, 0)
+int kobject_set_name_vargs(struct kobject *kobj, const char *fmt,
+			   va_list vargs);
 
 static inline const char *kobject_name(const struct kobject *kobj)
 {