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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: tom.leiming@gmail.com
Cc: kay.sievers@vrfy.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: don't pass cls->name as format string in sysdev_class_register()
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:16:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081213181653.GD6953@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1229164440-4631-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com>

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 06:34:00PM +0800, tom.leiming@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
> 
> If cls->name contains substring which can be interpreted as
> format,maybe it causes oops, so fix it.

Why not fix the code that would set cls->name to such a wrong field?  I
don't see any in-kernel code that does this, do you?

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-13 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-13 10:34 [PATCH] driver core: don't pass cls->name as format string in sysdev_class_register() tom.leiming
2008-12-13 18:16 ` Greg KH [this message]

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