[PATCH] fix spurious gcc warnings

[Josef 'Jeff' Sipek]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 06:47:38AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Some recent gcc warnings don't like passing string variables to
> printf-like functions without using at least a "%s" format string.
> Chaneg the two occurances of that in xfs to please gcc.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> 
> fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_stats.c: In function "xfs_read_xfssta":
> fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_stats.c:64: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
> fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c: In function "init_xfs_fs":
> fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c:1833: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
> 
> Index: linux-2.6-xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_stats.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-xfs.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_stats.c	2008-11-12 11:12:49.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6-xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_stats.c	2008-11-12 11:13:05.000000000 +0100
> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ xfs_read_xfsstats(
>  
>  	/* Loop over all stats groups */
>  	for (i=j=len = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(xstats); i++) {
> -		len += sprintf(buffer + len, xstats[i].desc);
> +		len += sprintf(buffer + len, "%s", xstats[i].desc);

Why not use strcpy here?

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

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