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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 12:05:58 +0530
From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: unisys: drop format string in kthread_run
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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