linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] fix some improper uses of dev_set

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Date:	Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:45:31 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...oscopio.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	gregkh@...e.de, kay.sievers@...y.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] fix some improper uses of dev_set_name

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:17:12PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> dev_set_name expects a format string. Many of its uses, however, blindly
> call it with a string variable that comes from some external, perhaps
> unreliable source. Some of those uses are safe, like those in the third
> patch in the series and most of those not fixed by any of them. Some few
> remaining uses may require some more attention to decide if a patch is
> really required. Perhaps converting all of them for safeness is a good
> compromise.
> 
> Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (4):
>   driver core: use string format when name is another device's name
>   driver core: use string format when name is given to an exported
>     function

These two patches were a bit more than just the "driver core".  Care to
split them up into the subsystem-proper sections and send them to the
different subsystem maintainers?

I don't see anything here that can come from a user supplied string, do
you?  So it's a pretty low priority.

thanks,

greg k-h
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