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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 12:00:22 -0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bradley Grove <linuxdrivers@attotech.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH] scsi: esas2r: fix potential format string flaw
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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 <keescook@chromium.org>
> ---
>  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...

confused,

greg k-h