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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2013-07-03 15:04:58 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-03 16:07:41 -0700
commitf170168b9a0b61ea1e647b082b38f605f1d3de3e (patch)
tree4381c129ee9af108e368e6c8255df53cbe233257 /fs/lockd
parentd8537548c924db3c44afde7646b6e220c7beb79d (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 'fs/lockd')
-rw-r--r--fs/lockd/svc.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/lockd/svc.c b/fs/lockd/svc.c
index a2aa97d45670..10d6c41aecad 100644
--- a/fs/lockd/svc.c
+++ b/fs/lockd/svc.c
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ static int lockd_start_svc(struct svc_serv *serv)
svc_sock_update_bufs(serv);
serv->sv_maxconn = nlm_max_connections;
- nlmsvc_task = kthread_run(lockd, nlmsvc_rqst, serv->sv_name);
+ nlmsvc_task = kthread_run(lockd, nlmsvc_rqst, "%s", serv->sv_name);
if (IS_ERR(nlmsvc_task)) {
error = PTR_ERR(nlmsvc_task);
printk(KERN_WARNING