Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:45:31 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] fix some improper uses of dev_set_name |
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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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