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/hwmon/adt7470.c b/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c
index b83bf4bb95eb..0f34bca9f5e5 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c
@@ -1285,7 +1285,7 @@ static int adt7470_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
         }
 
         init_completion(&data->auto_update_stop);
-        data->auto_update = kthread_run(adt7470_update_thread, client,
+        data->auto_update = kthread_run(adt7470_update_thread, client, "%s",
                                         dev_name(data->hwmon_dev));
         if (IS_ERR(data->auto_update)) {
                 err = PTR_ERR(data->auto_update);