staging: unisys: avoid format string parsing
This makes sure the kthread name can't be parsed as a format string.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Romer <benjamin.romer@unisys.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c
index 2a9b055..f4c0c9f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@
void *thrcontext, char *name)
{
/* used to stop the thread */
- thrinfo->task = kthread_run(threadfn, thrcontext, name);
+ thrinfo->task = kthread_run(threadfn, thrcontext, "%s", name);
if (IS_ERR(thrinfo->task)) {
pr_debug("%s failed (%ld)\n",
__func__, PTR_ERR(thrinfo->task));