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/media/i2c/tvaudio.c b/drivers/media/i2c/tvaudio.c
index b72a59d..e0634c8 100644
--- a/drivers/media/i2c/tvaudio.c
+++ b/drivers/media/i2c/tvaudio.c
@@ -2020,7 +2020,8 @@
/* start async thread */
chip->wt.function = chip_thread_wake;
chip->wt.data = (unsigned long)chip;
- chip->thread = kthread_run(chip_thread, chip, client->name);
+ chip->thread = kthread_run(chip_thread, chip, "%s",
+ client->name);
if (IS_ERR(chip->thread)) {
v4l2_warn(sd, "failed to create kthread\n");
chip->thread = NULL;