From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Harish Patil <harish.patil@cavium.com>,
Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@cavium.com>,
Dept-GELinuxNICDev@cavium.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] qlge: avoid format string exposure in workqueue
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 14:39:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170405213903.GA4505@beast> (raw)
While unlikely, this makes sure the workqueue name won't be processed
as a format string.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c
index e9e647072596..1188d420fe53 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c
@@ -4686,7 +4686,8 @@ static int ql_init_device(struct pci_dev *pdev, struct net_device *ndev,
/*
* Set up the operating parameters.
*/
- qdev->workqueue = alloc_ordered_workqueue(ndev->name, WQ_MEM_RECLAIM);
+ qdev->workqueue = alloc_ordered_workqueue("%s", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM,
+ ndev->name);
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&qdev->asic_reset_work, ql_asic_reset_work);
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&qdev->mpi_reset_work, ql_mpi_reset_work);
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&qdev->mpi_work, ql_mpi_work);
--
2.7.4
--
Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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2017-04-05 21:39 Kees Cook [this message]
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