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/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));