Kselftest.h declares many variadic functions that can print some formatted message while also executing selftest logic. These declarations don't have any compiler mechanism to verify if passed arguments are valid in comparison with format specifiers used in printf() calls.
Attribute addition can make debugging easier, the code more consistent and prevent mismatched or missing variables.
Add a __printf() macro that validates types of variables passed to the format string. The macro is similarly used in other tools in the kernel.
Add __printf() attributes to function definitions inside kselftest.h that use printing.
Adding the __printf() macro exposes some mismatches in format strings across different selftests.
Fix the mismatched format specifiers in multiple tests.
Changelog v2: - Add review and fixes tags to patches. - Add two patches with mismatch fixes. - Fix missed attribute in selftests/kvm. (Andrew) - Fix previously missed issues in selftests/mm (Ilpo)
Wieczor-Retman Maciej (8): selftests: Add printf attribute to ksefltest prints selftests/cachestat: Fix print_cachestat format selftests/openat2: Fix wrong format specifier selftests/pidfd: Fix ksft print formats selftests/sigaltstack: Fix wrong format specifier selftests/kvm: Replace attribute with macro selftests/mm: Substitute attribute with a macro selftests/resctrl: Fix wrong format specifier
.../selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/kselftest.h | 18 ++++++++++-------- .../testing/selftests/kvm/include/test_util.h | 8 ++++---- tools/testing/selftests/mm/mremap_test.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/mm/pkey-helpers.h | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/openat2/openat2_test.c | 2 +- .../selftests/pidfd/pidfd_fdinfo_test.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_test.c | 12 ++++++------ tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cache.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/sigaltstack/sas.c | 2 +- 10 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
base-commit: 9b1db732866bee060b9bca9493e5ebf5e8874c48