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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2013-07-03 15:04:58 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-03 16:07:41 -0700
commitf170168b9a0b61ea1e647b082b38f605f1d3de3e (patch)
tree4381c129ee9af108e368e6c8255df53cbe233257 /drivers/staging
parentd8537548c924db3c44afde7646b6e220c7beb79d (diff)
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/staging')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c
index b65bf5e177a8..6e81ba0eaf1e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ struct net_device *r8712_init_netdev(void)
static u32 start_drv_threads(struct _adapter *padapter)
{
- padapter->cmdThread = kthread_run(r8712_cmd_thread, padapter,
+ padapter->cmdThread = kthread_run(r8712_cmd_thread, padapter, "%s",
padapter->pnetdev->name);
if (IS_ERR(padapter->cmdThread) < 0)
return _FAIL;