From f170168b9a0b61ea1e647b082b38f605f1d3de3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:04:58 -0700
Subject: 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>
---
drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-driver.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
(limited to 'drivers/media/pci')
diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-driver.c b/drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-driver.c
index 07b8460953b..b809bc868a9 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;
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