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/net/sunrpc/svc.c b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
index 89a588b4478b..b974571126fe 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svc.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ svc_set_num_threads(struct svc_serv *serv, struct svc_pool *pool, int nrservs)
 
                 __module_get(serv->sv_module);
                 task = kthread_create_on_node(serv->sv_function, rqstp,
-                                              node, serv->sv_name);
+                                              node, "%s", serv->sv_name);
                 if (IS_ERR(task)) {
                         error = PTR_ERR(task);
                         module_put(serv->sv_module);