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authorNicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>2015-12-11 10:20:27 (GMT)
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2015-12-15 12:52:38 (GMT)
commit399368aab39135cd9bc5e20b55b8b4d48658f904 (patch)
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parentd7955fcff889ec9a78bac387aec929154465423a (diff)
downloadlinux-399368aab39135cd9bc5e20b55b8b4d48658f904.tar.xz
drm: make drm_dev_set_unique() not use a format string
drm_dev_set_unique() uses a format string to define the unique name of a device. This feature is not used as currently all the calls to this function either use "%s" as a format string or directly use dev_name(). Even though this second kind of call does not introduce security problems, because there cannot be "%" characters in dev_name() results, gcc issues a warning when building with -Wformat-security flag ("warning: format string is not a string literal (potentially insecure)"). This warning is useful to find real bugs like the one fixed by commit 3958b79266b1 ("configfs: fix kernel infoleak through user-controlled format string"). False positives which do not bring an extra value make the work of finding real bugs harder. Therefore remove the format-string feature from drm_dev_set_unique(). Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1449829228-4425-1-git-send-email-nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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