Re: [RESEND][PATCH] scsi: esas2r: fix potential format string flaw

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Dec 17 2013 - 16:17:57 EST


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:27:33AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
>> This makes sure format strings cannot leak into the printk call via the
>> constructed buffer.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_log.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Why is this patch "To:" me? I'm not the author of this driver, or the
> maintainer of it or the subsystem, and there's not much, if anything I
> can do with it...

I've resent this before, and since it lived in "drivers", I figured
you would be the next up the chain to take it (since it's been
ignored).

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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