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/net/sunrpc/svc.c b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
index 89a588b..b974571 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svc.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@
__module_get(serv->sv_module);
task = kthread_create_on_node(serv->sv_function, rqstp,
- node, serv->sv_name);
+ node, "%s", serv->sv_name);
if (IS_ERR(task)) {
error = PTR_ERR(task);
module_put(serv->sv_module);