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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/staging | |
| 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/staging')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c | 2 |
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; |