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| author | Kees Cook | 2013-07-03 15:04:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2013-07-03 16:07:41 -0700 |
| commit | f170168b9a0b61ea1e647b082b38f605f1d3de3e (patch) | |
| tree | 4381c129ee9af108e368e6c8255df53cbe233257 /drivers/media/pci | |
| parent | d8537548c924db3c44afde7646b6e220c7beb79d (diff) | |
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 'drivers/media/pci')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-driver.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-driver.c b/drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-driver.c index 07b8460953b6..b809bc868a9f 100644 --- a/drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-driver.c +++ b/drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-driver.c @@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ static int ivtv_init_struct1(struct ivtv *itv) init_kthread_worker(&itv->irq_worker); itv->irq_worker_task = kthread_run(kthread_worker_fn, &itv->irq_worker, - itv->v4l2_dev.name); + "%s", itv->v4l2_dev.name); if (IS_ERR(itv->irq_worker_task)) { IVTV_ERR("Could not create ivtv task\n"); return -1; |