linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.19 124/139] staging: most: use format specifier "%s" in snprintf

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Message-Id: <20181204103655.816375740@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue,  4 Dec 2018 11:50:05 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.19 124/139] staging: most: use format specifier "%s" in snprintf

4.19-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

commit 13c45007e0a87e912da21223599583fdea677914 upstream.

Passing string ch_data_type[i].name as the format specifier is
potentially hazardous because it 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.

Cleans up clang warning:
format string is not a string literal (potentially insecure) [-Wformat-security]

Fixes: e7f2b70fd3a9 ("staging: most: replace multiple if..else with table lookup")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc: stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/staging/most/core.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/most/core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/most/core.c
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ static ssize_t set_datatype_show(struct
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(ch_data_type); i++) {
 		if (c->cfg.data_type & ch_data_type[i].most_ch_data_type)
-			return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, ch_data_type[i].name);
+			return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s", ch_data_type[i].name);
 	}
 	return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "unconfigured\n");
 }