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Commit 6fdb1f4f authored by Kees Cook's avatar Kees Cook Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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staging/rtl8821ae: avoid format string leak to thread name 



This makes sure the cfg->name can never accidentally be processed as a
format string in the worker thread name.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 4b9708e0

drivers/staging/rtl8821ae/base.c

+2 −1
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@@ -404,7 +404,8 @@ static int _rtl_init_deferred_work(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) 
/*<delete in kernel start>*/

#if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 37))

/*<delete in kernel end>*/

	rtlpriv->works.rtl_wq = alloc_workqueue(rtlpriv->cfg->name, 0, 0);

	rtlpriv->works.rtl_wq = alloc_workqueue("%s", 0, 0,

						rtlpriv->cfg->name);

/*<delete in kernel start>*/

#else

	rtlpriv->works.rtl_wq = create_workqueue(rtlpriv->cfg->name);