From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753446AbdDFUh6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Apr 2017 16:37:58 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:38004 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752173AbdDFUhv (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Apr 2017 16:37:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 13:37:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20170406.133749.106162564910238546.davem@davemloft.net> To: keescook@chromium.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, harish.patil@cavium.com, manish.chopra@cavium.com, Dept-GELinuxNICDev@cavium.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] qlge: avoid format string exposure in workqueue From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20170405213903.GA4505@beast> References: <20170405213903.GA4505@beast> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.7 on Emacs 25.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Thu, 06 Apr 2017 12:56:33 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Kees Cook Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 14:39:03 -0700 > While unlikely, this makes sure the workqueue name won't be processed > as a format string. > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Applied.