From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 04:39:11 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: xen-netback: fix possible format string flaw
X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a9677bc024dcaafcf36c1cc4b0706b87be26ee5f;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git

xen-netback: fix possible format string flaw

This makes sure a format string cannot accidentally leak into the
kthread_run() call.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
index 625c6f49cfba..77fee1d51fb2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ int xenvif_connect(struct xenvif *vif, unsigned long tx_ring_ref,
 
 	init_waitqueue_head(&vif->wq);
 	vif->task = kthread_create(xenvif_kthread,
-				   (void *)vif, vif->dev->name);
+				   (void *)vif, "%s", vif->dev->name);
 	if (IS_ERR(vif->task)) {
 		pr_warn("Could not allocate kthread for %s\n", vif->dev->name);
 		err = PTR_ERR(vif->task);