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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
index fc803ecbbce4..b75c7db16559 100644
--- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
@@ -1340,7 +1340,7 @@ aoe_ktstart(struct ktstate *k)
         struct task_struct *task;
 
         init_completion(&k->rendez);
-        task = kthread_run(kthread, k, k->name);
+        task = kthread_run(kthread, k, "%s", k->name);
         if (task == NULL || IS_ERR(task))
                 return -ENOMEM;
         k->task = task;