[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] eal: fix log message print for regex

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 9:25 AM Sunil Kumar Kori <skori at marvell.com> wrote:
>
> If user passes log-level eal parameter to enable log level based on regex
> then in case of error message is being printed for pattern match instead of
> regex. Following is the warning message thrown:
>
> Compiling C object 'lib/76b5a35@@rte_eal at sta/librte_eal_common_eal_common_options.c.o'.
> In function ‘eal_parse_log_level’,
>    inlined from ‘eal_parse_common_option’ at ../lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c:1418:7:
> ../lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c:1053:4: warning: ‘%s’ directive argument is null [-Wformat-overflow=]
>  1053 |    fprintf(stderr, "cannot set log level %s,%d\n",
>       |    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  1054 |     pattern, priority);
>       |     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>

Good catch.

Just to understand, how did you catch it?
Extra cflags? specific compiler?


> Fixes: 7f0bb634a140 ("log: add ability to match log type with globbing")

Missing Cc: stable.


>
> Signed-off-by: Sunil Kumar Kori <skori at marvell.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> index 75974dd5b..525e51e7d 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> @@ -1046,7 +1046,7 @@ eal_parse_log_level(const char *arg)
>         if (regex) {
>                 if (rte_log_set_level_regexp(regex, priority) < 0) {
>                         fprintf(stderr, "cannot set log level %s,%d\n",
> -                               pattern, priority);
> +                               regex, priority);
>                         goto fail;
>                 }
>                 if (rte_log_save_regexp(regex, priority) < 0)
> --
> 2.17.1
>

Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>



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David Marchand