On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 10:27 -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > This makes sure format strings cannot leak into the printk call via the > constructed buffer. [] > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_log.c b/drivers/scsi/esas2r/esas2r_log.c [] > @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ static int esas2r_log_master(const long level, > if (strlen(event_buffer) < buflen) > strcat(buffer, "\n"); > > - printk(event_buffer); > + printk("%s", event_buffer); It's probably better to remove the if (strlen(event_buffer) < buflen) strcat(buffer, "\n"); and use printk("%s\n", event_buffer); so that the output is always newline terminated. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html