Re: [RESEND][PATCH] sparc: use %s for unaligned panic

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Mon Jul 14 2014 - 10:06:53 EST


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 01:37:59PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Since unaligned_panic() takes a literal string, make sure it can never
> accidentally be used as a format string.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c
> index c5c61b3c6b56..32b61d1b6379 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c
> +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c
> @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ unsigned long safe_compute_effective_address(struct pt_regs *regs,
> /* This is just to make gcc think panic does return... */
> static void unaligned_panic(char *str)
> {
> - panic(str);
> + panic("%s", str);
> }
>
> /* una_asm.S */

The feedback last time was that this patch is silly.
panic() has only two callsites within the same file.

Sam
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