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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Kees Cook 2013-07-03 15:04:58 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit f170168b9a
19 changed files with 28 additions and 22 deletions

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@ -1285,7 +1285,7 @@ static int adt7470_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
}
init_completion(&data->auto_update_stop);
data->auto_update = kthread_run(adt7470_update_thread, client,
data->auto_update = kthread_run(adt7470_update_thread, client, "%s",
dev_name(data->hwmon_dev));
if (IS_ERR(data->auto_update)) {
err = PTR_ERR(data->auto_update);