From 58e1e5425f0dea78dcd9ae56c0330fa4ada6c792 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 13:07:01 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Staging: unisys: fix potential format string leak Since "name" is always used directly, force "%s" for the kthread format string to avoid any potential format string leaks. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c index d5178b44ba8c..202bfabfec6c 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c +++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ static int visor_thread_start(struct visor_thread_info *thrinfo, { /* used to stop the thread */ init_completion(&thrinfo->has_stopped); - thrinfo->task = kthread_run(threadfn, thrcontext, name); + thrinfo->task = kthread_run(threadfn, thrcontext, "%s", name); if (IS_ERR(thrinfo->task)) { thrinfo->id = 0; return PTR_ERR(thrinfo->task); -- 2.20.1