Commit 58e1e542 authored by Kees Cook's avatar Kees Cook Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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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: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 2c7e1d4e

drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c

+1 −1
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@@ -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);

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