block: do not pass disk names as format strings

Disk names may contain arbitrary strings, so they must not be interpreted as format strings. It seems that only md allows arbitrary strings to be used for disk names, but this could allow for a local memory corruption from uid 0 into ring 0. CVE-2013-2851 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
torvalds · Jul 3, 2013 · ffc8b30 · ffc8b30
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diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ static void register_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
 
 	ddev->parent = disk->driverfs_dev;
 
-	dev_set_name(ddev, disk->disk_name);
+	dev_set_name(ddev, "%s", disk->disk_name);
 
 	/* delay uevents, until we scanned partition table */
 	dev_set_uevent_suppress(ddev, 1);

diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -714,7 +714,8 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct nbd_device *nbd,
 		else
 			blk_queue_flush(nbd->disk->queue, 0);
 
-		thread = kthread_create(nbd_thread, nbd, nbd->disk->disk_name);
+		thread = kthread_create(nbd_thread, nbd, "%s",
+					nbd->disk->disk_name);
 		if (IS_ERR(thread)) {
 			mutex_lock(&nbd->tx_lock);
 			return PTR_ERR(thread);

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c b/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ static int osd_probe(struct device *dev)
 	oud->class_dev.class = &osd_uld_class;
 	oud->class_dev.parent = dev;
 	oud->class_dev.release = __remove;
-	error = dev_set_name(&oud->class_dev, disk->disk_name);
+	error = dev_set_name(&oud->class_dev, "%s", disk->disk_name);
 	if (error) {
 		OSD_ERR("dev_set_name failed => %d\n", error);
 		goto err_put_cdev;