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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/block | |
| parent | d8537548c924db3c44afde7646b6e220c7beb79d (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/block')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 2 |
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c index fc803ecbbce4..b75c7db16559 100644 --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c @@ -1340,7 +1340,7 @@ aoe_ktstart(struct ktstate *k) struct task_struct *task; init_completion(&k->rendez); - task = kthread_run(kthread, k, k->name); + task = kthread_run(kthread, k, "%s", k->name); if (task == NULL || IS_ERR(task)) return -ENOMEM; k->task = task; diff --git a/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c b/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c index 20dd52a2f92f..952dbfe22126 100644 --- a/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c +++ b/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c @@ -4087,7 +4087,8 @@ skip_create_disk: start_service_thread: sprintf(thd_name, "mtip_svc_thd_%02d", index); dd->mtip_svc_handler = kthread_create_on_node(mtip_service_thread, - dd, dd->numa_node, thd_name); + dd, dd->numa_node, "%s", + thd_name); if (IS_ERR(dd->mtip_svc_handler)) { dev_err(&dd->pdev->dev, "service thread failed to start\n"); diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c index 8bfd1bcf95ec..04608a6502d7 100644 --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static void xen_update_blkif_status(struct xen_blkif *blkif) } invalidate_inode_pages2(blkif->vbd.bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping); - blkif->xenblkd = kthread_run(xen_blkif_schedule, blkif, name); + blkif->xenblkd = kthread_run(xen_blkif_schedule, blkif, "%s", name); if (IS_ERR(blkif->xenblkd)) { err = PTR_ERR(blkif->xenblkd); blkif->xenblkd = NULL; |