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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2014-05-22 11:51:04 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-07-07 10:12:56 -0700
commit6945915e7f949e213c525d4eb244be87ec92f3d1 (patch)
tree284e98cf0402cc53cfdae22c7719d4ed9a413779 /kernel/torture.c
parent9bee2c6fb49d93678e4fb506a911c0b5ffe455ee (diff)
downloadlinux-6945915e7f949e213c525d4eb244be87ec92f3d1.tar.gz
torture: Avoid format string leak to thead name
Since the torture-test thread creation interface does not include
format string arguments, this commit makes sure the name can never be
accidentally processed as a format string.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/torture.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/torture.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/torture.c b/kernel/torture.c
index 40bb511cca48..d600af21f022 100644
--- a/kernel/torture.c
+++ b/kernel/torture.c
@@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ int _torture_create_kthread(int (*fn)(void *arg), void *arg, char *s, char *m,
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING(m);
-	*tp = kthread_run(fn, arg, s);
+	*tp = kthread_run(fn, arg, "%s", s);
 	if (IS_ERR(*tp)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(*tp);
 		VERBOSE_TOROUT_ERRSTRING(f);