linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] driver core: don't pass cls->name as format string in sysdev_class

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Message-ID: <20081213181653.GD6953@kroah.com>
Date:	Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:16:53 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	tom.leiming@...il.com
Cc:	kay.sievers@...y.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: don't pass cls->name as format string in
	sysdev_class_register()

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 06:34:00PM +0800, tom.leiming@...il.com wrote:
> From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
> 
> If cls->name contains substring which can be interpreted as
> format,maybe it causes oops, so fix it.

Why not fix the code that would set cls->name to such a wrong field?  I
don't see any in-kernel code that does this, do you?

thanks,

greg k-h
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