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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2013-07-04 02:04:58 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-04 03:07:41 +0400
commitf170168b9a0b61ea1e647b082b38f605f1d3de3e (patch)
tree4381c129ee9af108e368e6c8255df53cbe233257 /net
parentd8537548c924db3c44afde7646b6e220c7beb79d (diff)
downloadlinux-f170168b9a0b61ea1e647b082b38f605f1d3de3e.tar.xz
drivers: avoid parsing names as kthread_run() format strings
Calling kthread_run with a single name parameter causes it to be handled as a format string. Many callers are passing potentially dynamic string content, so use "%s" in those cases to avoid any potential accidents. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/sunrpc/svc.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc.c b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
index 89a588b4478b..b974571126fe 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svc.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ svc_set_num_threads(struct svc_serv *serv, struct svc_pool *pool, int nrservs)
__module_get(serv->sv_module);
task = kthread_create_on_node(serv->sv_function, rqstp,
- node, serv->sv_name);
+ node, "%s", serv->sv_name);
if (IS_ERR(task)) {
error = PTR_ERR(task);
module_put(serv->sv_module);