From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH] scsi: esas2r: fix potential format string flaw Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:54:36 -0800 Message-ID: <20131217215436.GA19898@kroah.com> References: <20131217182733.GA16202@www.outflux.net> <20131217200022.GD28274@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Kees Cook Cc: LKML , Bradley Grove , "James E.J. Bottomley" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 01:17:51PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:27:33AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > >> This makes sure format strings cannot leak into the printk call via the > >> constructed buffer. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook > >> --- > >> drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_log.c | 2 +- > >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > Why is this patch "To:" me? I'm not the author of this driver, or the > > maintainer of it or the subsystem, and there's not much, if anything I > > can do with it... > > I've resent this before, and since it lived in "drivers", I figured > you would be the next up the chain to take it (since it's been > ignored). Heh, while I do seem to maintain a ton of the drivers/ tree, I don't take everything there. This needs to go through James's tree, he can handle it :) thanks, greg k-h