On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 08:55:08PM -0700, William Roberts wrote:
 On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 6:43 PM, William Roberts
 <bill.c.roberts(a)gmail.com>wrote:
 > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb(a)redhat.com>wrote:
 >> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 04:31:30PM -0700, William Roberts wrote:
 >> > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:30 PM, William Roberts
 >> > <bill.c.roberts(a)gmail.com>wrote:
 >> > > I've been working off of Richard Guy Brigs git repo on branch
 >> > > audit-for-next prepping my patch and I noticed a build warning:
 >> > >
 >> > > kernel/audit.c:832:8: warning: format ‘%A’ expects argument of type
 >> > > ‘double’, but argument 3 has type ‘char *’ [-Wformat]
 >> > >
 >> > > Looking at the code, it looks wrong:
 >> > >
 >> > >                                 audit_log_format(ab,
 >> >                                                  "
 >> > msg='%.AUDIT_MESSAGE_TEXT_MAXs'",
 >> >                                                  (char *)data);
 >> >
 >> > The issue appears on the % specifier in there, it picks it up as
 >> > %.A, which is of type double. Is this what was intended?
 >>
 >> Hmmm, that should have picked up a macro from 06051fbe in
 >> audit-for-next.  It should be pre-processed to "%.8560s".
 >>
 >> > William C Roberts
 >>
 >> - RGB
 >
 > The qoutes are wrong for that.
 
 Ok I see the value is not a string, but a numeric constant. Dont you need
 to do something like this:
 diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
 index bf4b1af..81dde3d 100644
 --- a/kernel/audit.c
 +++ b/kernel/audit.c
 @@ -825,10 +825,12 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb,
 struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
                                 if (err)
                                         break;
                         }
 +#define STR_HELPER(x) #x
 +#define STR(x) STR_HELPER(x)
                         audit_log_common_recv_msg(&ab, msg_type);
                         if (msg_type != AUDIT_USER_TTY)
                                 audit_log_format(ab,
 -                                                "
 msg='%.AUDIT_MESSAGE_TEXT_MAXs'",
 +                                                "
 msg='%."STR(AUDIT_MESSAGE_TEXT_MAX)"s'",
                                                  (char *)data);
                         else {
                                 int size; 
Ugh.  That's not so easy to read...  Slightly longer, how about this?
diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 8378c5e..3f569d1 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -824,11 +824,13 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr
*nlh)
 					break;
 			}
 			audit_log_common_recv_msg(&ab, msg_type);
-			if (msg_type != AUDIT_USER_TTY)
-				audit_log_format(ab,
-						 " msg='%.AUDIT_MESSAGE_TEXT_MAXs'",
-						 (char *)data);
-			else {
+			if (msg_type != AUDIT_USER_TTY) {
+				char fmt[64];
+				strcat(fmt, " msg='%.");
+				strcat(fmt, "AUDIT_MESSAGE_TEXT_MAX");
+				strcat(fmt, "s'");
+				audit_log_format(ab, fmt, (char *)data);
+			} else {
 				int size;
 
 				audit_log_format(ab, " data=");
 Unless their is some gnu-magic I don't know about.
 
 William C Roberts 
- RGB
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