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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2014-05-22 11:48:41 -0700
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2014-05-29 13:08:10 -0400
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rsi: avoid format string leak to thread name
Since the rsi_create_kthread interface does not include any format string arguments, make sure that the resulting thread name can never accidentally process the name as a format string. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/rsi')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_common.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_common.h b/drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_common.h
index f2f70784d4ad..d3fbe33d2324 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_common.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_common.h
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ static inline int rsi_create_kthread(struct rsi_common *common,
u8 *name)
{
init_completion(&thread->completion);
- thread->task = kthread_run(func_ptr, common, name);
+ thread->task = kthread_run(func_ptr, common, "%s", name);
if (IS_ERR(thread->task))
return (int)PTR_ERR(thread->task);