From: Dmitriy Okunev <dokunevdmitriy@gmail.com>
To: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Cc: lvc-project@linuxtesting.org,
Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org>,
Peter Chen <peter.chen@nxp.com>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] of: module: harden a call to request_module
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:24:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260914122425.137413-1-dokunevdmitriy@gmail.com> (raw)
In of_request_module(), the string 'str' is built from Device Tree data
and passed directly to request_module() as a format string. While the
Device Tree is generally considered trusted, using externally provided
data as a format string is fragile and can lead to unintended format
specifier interpretation.
Fix this by using request_module("%s", str) to treat 'str' as a plain
string argument, not a format string.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Fixes: 9c829c097f2f1 ("of: device: Support loading a module with OF based modalias")
Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Okunev <dokunevdmitriy@gmail.com>
---
drivers/of/module.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/of/module.c b/drivers/of/module.c
index 1e735fc130ad..592377603c24 100644
--- a/drivers/of/module.c
+++ b/drivers/of/module.c
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ int of_request_module(const struct device_node *np)
of_modalias(np, str, size);
str[size - 1] = '\0';
- ret = request_module(str);
+ ret = request_module("%s", str);
kfree(str);
return ret;
--
2.53.0
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