From: Kees Cook <[email protected]> This makes sure the kthread name can't be parsed as a format string.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Romer <[email protected]> --- drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c index a4ee194..18b0465 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c +++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ 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)); -- 2.1.4 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
