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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@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ static int spi_init_queue(struct spi_master *master)
init_kthread_worker(&master->kworker);
master->kworker_task = kthread_run(kthread_worker_fn,
&master->kworker,
&master->kworker, "%s",
dev_name(&master->dev));
if (IS_ERR(master->kworker_task)) {
dev_err(&master->dev, "failed to create message pump task\n");