staging: unisys: avoid format string parsing

This makes sure the kthread name can't be parsed as a format string. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Romer <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
verygreen · Jul 31, 2015 · 30948df · 30948df
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diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ static int visor_thread_start(struct visor_thread_info *thrinfo,
 			      void *thrcontext, char *name)
 {
 	/* used to stop the thread */
-	thrinfo->task = kthread_run(threadfn, thrcontext, name);
+	thrinfo->task = kthread_run(threadfn, thrcontext, "%s", name);
 	if (IS_ERR(thrinfo->task)) {
 		pr_debug("%s failed (%ld)\n",
 			 __func__, PTR_ERR(thrinfo->task));