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From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Benjamin Romer <benjamin.romer@unisys.com>,
	David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>,
	Bryan Thompson <bryan.thompson@unisys.com>,
	Michel von Czettritz <michel.von.czettritz@gmail.com>,
	sparmaintainer@unisys.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: unisys: drop format string in kthread_run
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 12:05:58 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150605063558.GE16319@sudip-PC> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150604183701.GA19803@www.outflux.net>

On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 11:37:01AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Calling kthread_run with a single name parameter causes it to be handled
> as a format string. Since the uisthread interface lacks format parameters,
> use "%s" to avoid any potential accidents from callers passing in dynamic
> string content.

uislib folder has already been deleted in staging-testing tree.

regards
sudip

      reply	other threads:[~2015-06-05  6:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-04 18:37 [PATCH] staging: unisys: drop format string in kthread_run Kees Cook
2015-06-05  6:35 ` Sudip Mukherjee [this message]

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