Re: [PATCH v3] led/led-class: Handle LEDs with the same name

[Bryan Wu]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
<ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Sakari
>
> cc: adding Greg (core and FormatGuard) and Chistopher (sparse)
>>
>> I just realised there was another issue --- the name is now interpreted as
>> format string. Bad things will happen if there's e.g. %s in the name itself
>> --- perhaps unlikely, but possible.
>
> Good catch!
>
> Would it be possible to add a sparse check to avoid this in all the kernel?
>
> And what about a macro protection like FormatGuard?
>
> https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sec01/full_papers/cowanbarringer/cowanbarringer.pdf
>
>

I think Fengguang's 0-DAY kernel test infrastructure can help this.
-Bryan
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