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authorKees Cook <[email protected]>2013-07-03 22:04:56 +0000
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2013-07-03 23:07:41 +0000
commit02aa2a37636c8fa4fb9322d91be46ff8225b7de0 (patch)
tree97c93d17cfcad186d229ef76f96de709eddfea8c /drivers/base/attribute_container.c
parentclean up scary strncpy(dst, src, strlen(src)) uses (diff)
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drivers: avoid format string in dev_set_name
Calling dev_set_name with a single paramter causes it to be handled as a format string. Many callers are passing potentially dynamic string content, so use "%s" in those cases to avoid any potential accidents, including wrappers like device_create*() and bdi_register(). Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/attribute_container.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/attribute_container.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/attribute_container.c b/drivers/base/attribute_container.c
index d78b204e65c1..ecc1929d7f6a 100644
--- a/drivers/base/attribute_container.c
+++ b/drivers/base/attribute_container.c
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ attribute_container_add_device(struct device *dev,
ic->classdev.parent = get_device(dev);
ic->classdev.class = cont->class;
cont->class->dev_release = attribute_container_release;
- dev_set_name(&ic->classdev, dev_name(dev));
+ dev_set_name(&ic->classdev, "%s", dev_name(dev));
if (fn)
fn(cont, dev, &ic->classdev);
else