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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2013-07-03 15:04:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Chanho Park <chanho61.park@samsung.com> | 2014-08-08 15:20:52 +0900 |
| commit | 353b671e7ccedfea9f36e9fd20d7c776bb09b961 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b4bdeb1086dd056549ecb079bbeac21b91996b5 /kernel | |
| parent | 4b3f31b470acf4ed1f069607be42f5bbb7ae4007 (diff) | |
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upstream: 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 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcutree.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index 35380019f0f..131b2fb5442 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -3120,7 +3120,7 @@ static int __init rcu_spawn_gp_kthread(void) struct task_struct *t; for_each_rcu_flavor(rsp) { - t = kthread_run(rcu_gp_kthread, rsp, rsp->name); + t = kthread_run(rcu_gp_kthread, rsp, "%s", rsp->name); BUG_ON(IS_ERR(t)); rnp = rcu_get_root(rsp); raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags); |