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>
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c
index 1be0776..cab190a 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c
@@ -1336,7 +1336,8 @@
if ((retval = pci_set_dma_mask(aac->pdev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32))))
goto out;
if (jafo) {
- aac->thread = kthread_run(aac_command_thread, aac, aac->name);
+ aac->thread = kthread_run(aac_command_thread, aac, "%s",
+ aac->name);
if (IS_ERR(aac->thread)) {
retval = PTR_ERR(aac->thread);
goto out;