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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/mtd | |
| 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/mtd')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c index a56133585e92..0aaece9107c7 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c @@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@ int ubi_attach_mtd_dev(struct mtd_info *mtd, int ubi_num, if (err) goto out_uif; - ubi->bgt_thread = kthread_create(ubi_thread, ubi, ubi->bgt_name); + ubi->bgt_thread = kthread_create(ubi_thread, ubi, "%s", ubi->bgt_name); if (IS_ERR(ubi->bgt_thread)) { err = PTR_ERR(ubi->bgt_thread); ubi_err("cannot spawn \"%s\", error %d", ubi->bgt_name, |