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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2015-07-28 12:29:06 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-07-31 16:09:23 -0700
commit30948df80c1d17a7dfe5f4efba7e8f4880fc7662 (patch)
treeed2d3674f0375b46e832f14f0b74cd770fe84de0 /drivers/staging/unisys/visornic
parentdrivers, staging, unisys Add modalias files to visorbus devices (diff)
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staging: unisys: avoid format string parsing
This makes sure the kthread name can't be parsed as a format string. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Romer <benjamin.romer@unisys.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/unisys/visornic')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c
index 2a9b055dcc51..f4c0c9fd077b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ static int visor_thread_start(struct visor_thread_info *thrinfo,
void *thrcontext, char *name)
{
/* used to stop the thread */
- thrinfo->task = kthread_run(threadfn, thrcontext, name);
+ thrinfo->task = kthread_run(threadfn, thrcontext, "%s", name);
if (IS_ERR(thrinfo->task)) {
pr_debug("%s failed (%ld)\n",
__func__, PTR_ERR(thrinfo->task));