summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/drivers/hwmon
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2013-07-04 00:04:58 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-04 01:07:41 +0200
commitf170168b9a0b61ea1e647b082b38f605f1d3de3e (patch)
tree4381c129ee9af108e368e6c8255df53cbe233257 /drivers/hwmon
parentdrivers: avoid format strings in names passed to alloc_workqueue() (diff)
downloadlinux-f170168b9a0b61ea1e647b082b38f605f1d3de3e.tar.xz
linux-f170168b9a0b61ea1e647b082b38f605f1d3de3e.zip
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 'drivers/hwmon')
-rw-r--r--drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c b/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c
index b83bf4bb95eb..0f34bca9f5e5 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c
@@ -1285,7 +1285,7 @@ static int adt7470_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
}
init_completion(&data->auto_update_stop);
- data->auto_update = kthread_run(adt7470_update_thread, client,
+ data->auto_update = kthread_run(adt7470_update_thread, client, "%s",
dev_name(data->hwmon_dev));
if (IS_ERR(data->auto_update)) {
err = PTR_ERR(data->auto_update);