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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2013-07-03 15:04:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-07-03 16:07:41 -0700 |
| commit | f170168b9a0b61ea1e647b082b38f605f1d3de3e (patch) | |
| tree | 4381c129ee9af108e368e6c8255df53cbe233257 /drivers/net/wireless | |
| parent | d8537548c924db3c44afde7646b6e220c7beb79d (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/net/wireless')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/airo.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c b/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c index 6125adb520a3..d0adbaf86186 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c @@ -1893,7 +1893,8 @@ static int airo_open(struct net_device *dev) { if (ai->wifidev != dev) { clear_bit(JOB_DIE, &ai->jobs); - ai->airo_thread_task = kthread_run(airo_thread, dev, dev->name); + ai->airo_thread_task = kthread_run(airo_thread, dev, "%s", + dev->name); if (IS_ERR(ai->airo_thread_task)) return (int)PTR_ERR(ai->airo_thread_task); |