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 d5178b4..202bfab 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
{
/* 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);