From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 21:07:01 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Staging: unisys: fix potential format string leak
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=58e1e5425f0dea78dcd9ae56c0330fa4ada6c792;p=linux-beck.git

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 <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

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);