When building against the 6.1.6 kernel (maybe others..) the name field in drm_encodeer_init() is checked as a printf format string. This causes a fatal error:
2023/01/24 11:37:04 akmodsbuild: /tmp/akmodsbuild.N6DUGkQn/BUILD/evdi-bdc258b25df4d00f222fde0e3c5003bf88ef17b5/_kmod_build_6.1.6-100.fc36.x86_64/evdi_encoder.c:57:32: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
2023/01/24 11:37:04 akmodsbuild: 57 | DRM_MODE_ENCODER_TMDS, dev_name(dev->dev));
2023/01/24 11:37:04 akmodsbuild: | ^~~~~
2023/01/24 11:37:04 akmodsbuild: cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
2023/01/24 11:37:04 akmodsbuild: make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:250: /tmp/akmodsbuild.N6DUGkQn/BUILD/evdi-bdc258b25df4d00f222fde0e3c5003bf88ef17b5/_kmod_build_6.1.6-100.fc36.x86_64/evdi_encoder.o] Error 1
This change makes name be a "%s" format string with dev_name(dev->dev) as the sole following arg.
displaylink-emajewsk
commented
1 year ago
When building against the 6.1.6 kernel (maybe others..) the name field in drm_encodeer_init() is checked as a printf format string. This causes a fatal error:
2023/01/24 11:37:04 akmodsbuild: /tmp/akmodsbuild.N6DUGkQn/BUILD/evdi-bdc258b25df4d00f222fde0e3c5003bf88ef17b5/_kmod_build_6.1.6-100.fc36.x86_64/evdi_encoder.c:57:32: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security] 2023/01/24 11:37:04 akmodsbuild: 57 | DRM_MODE_ENCODER_TMDS, dev_name(dev->dev)); 2023/01/24 11:37:04 akmodsbuild: | ^
~~~~2023/01/24 11:37:04 akmodsbuild: cc1: some warnings being treated as errors 2023/01/24 11:37:04 akmodsbuild: make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:250: /tmp/akmodsbuild.N6DUGkQn/BUILD/evdi-bdc258b25df4d00f222fde0e3c5003bf88ef17b5/_kmod_build_6.1.6-100.fc36.x86_64/evdi_encoder.o] Error 1This change makes name be a "%s" format string with dev_name(dev->dev) as the sole following arg.