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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2013-07-04 00:04:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-07-04 01:07:41 +0200 |
| commit | f170168b9a0b61ea1e647b082b38f605f1d3de3e (patch) | |
| tree | 4381c129ee9af108e368e6c8255df53cbe233257 /drivers/media/i2c/tvaudio.c | |
| parent | drivers: avoid format strings in names passed to alloc_workqueue() (diff) | |
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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/media/i2c/tvaudio.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/media/i2c/tvaudio.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/tvaudio.c b/drivers/media/i2c/tvaudio.c index b72a59d3216a..e0634c8b7e0b 100644 --- a/drivers/media/i2c/tvaudio.c +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/tvaudio.c @@ -2020,7 +2020,8 @@ static int tvaudio_probe(struct i2c_client *client, const struct i2c_device_id * /* start async thread */ chip->wt.function = chip_thread_wake; chip->wt.data = (unsigned long)chip; - chip->thread = kthread_run(chip_thread, chip, client->name); + chip->thread = kthread_run(chip_thread, chip, "%s", + client->name); if (IS_ERR(chip->thread)) { v4l2_warn(sd, "failed to create kthread\n"); chip->thread = NULL; |