Re: [PATCH] driver core: don't pass cls->name as format string insysdev_class_register()

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 06:34:00PM +0800, tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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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