commit a9677bc024dcaafcf36c1cc4b0706b87be26ee5f
author Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Tue Sep 10 21:39:11 2013 -0700
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Thu Sep 12 17:20:03 2013 -0400
tree 08a4d696b5cf98229207fa19fc3cea11f70d0a74
parent b0dd663b60944a3ce86430fa35549fb37968bda0

xen-netback: fix possible format string flaw

This makes sure a format string cannot accidentally leak into the
kthread_run() call.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c

diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
index 625c6f4..77fee1d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@
 
 	init_waitqueue_head(&vif->wq);
 	vif->task = kthread_create(xenvif_kthread,
-				   (void *)vif, vif->dev->name);
+				   (void *)vif, "%s", vif->dev->name);
 	if (IS_ERR(vif->task)) {
 		pr_warn("Could not allocate kthread for %s\n", vif->dev->name);
 		err = PTR_ERR(vif->task);