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/fs/nfs/callback.c b/fs/nfs/callback.c
index cff089a..da6a43d 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/callback.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/callback.c
@@ -211,7 +211,6 @@
struct svc_rqst *rqstp;
int (*callback_svc)(void *vrqstp);
struct nfs_callback_data *cb_info = &nfs_callback_info[minorversion];
- char svc_name[12];
int ret;
nfs_callback_bc_serv(minorversion, xprt, serv);
@@ -235,10 +234,10 @@
svc_sock_update_bufs(serv);
- sprintf(svc_name, "nfsv4.%u-svc", minorversion);
cb_info->serv = serv;
cb_info->rqst = rqstp;
- cb_info->task = kthread_run(callback_svc, cb_info->rqst, svc_name);
+ cb_info->task = kthread_run(callback_svc, cb_info->rqst,
+ "nfsv4.%u-svc", minorversion);
if (IS_ERR(cb_info->task)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(cb_info->task);
svc_exit_thread(cb_info->rqst);
diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
index ff10b4a..5541881 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
@@ -1194,7 +1194,7 @@
snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s-manager",
rpc_peeraddr2str(clp->cl_rpcclient, RPC_DISPLAY_ADDR));
rcu_read_unlock();
- task = kthread_run(nfs4_run_state_manager, clp, buf);
+ task = kthread_run(nfs4_run_state_manager, clp, "%s", buf);
if (IS_ERR(task)) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: kthread_run: %ld\n",
__func__, PTR_ERR(task));