linux-kernel - [PATCH] pcrypt: use format specifier in kobject

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Date:   Sat, 27 Oct 2018 15:49:26 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] pcrypt: use format specifier in kobject_add

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Passing string 'name' as the format specifier is potentially hazardous
because name could (although very unlikely to) have a format specifier
embedded in it causing issues when parsing the non-existent arguments
to these.  Follow best practice by using the "%s" format string for
the string 'name'.

Cleans up clang warning:
crypto/pcrypt.c:397:40: warning: format string is not a string literal
(potentially insecure) [-Wformat-security]

Fixes: a3fb1e330dd2 ("pcrypt: Added sysfs interface to pcrypt")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 crypto/pcrypt.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/crypto/pcrypt.c b/crypto/pcrypt.c
index f8ec3d4ba4a8..29d2cf989c05 100644
--- a/crypto/pcrypt.c
+++ b/crypto/pcrypt.c
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ static int pcrypt_sysfs_add(struct padata_instance *pinst, const char *name)
 	int ret;
 
 	pinst->kobj.kset = pcrypt_kset;
-	ret = kobject_add(&pinst->kobj, NULL, name);
+	ret = kobject_add(&pinst->kobj, NULL, "%s", name);
 	if (!ret)
 		kobject_uevent(&pinst->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
 
-- 
2.19.1