This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled staging: most: use format specifier "%s" in snprintf to my staging git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git in the staging-linus branch. The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release. If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. >From 13c45007e0a87e912da21223599583fdea677914 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 11:56:45 +0000 Subject: staging: most: use format specifier "%s" in snprintf Passing string ch_data_type[i].name as the format specifier is potentially hazardous because it could (although very unlikely to) have a format specifier embedded in it causing issues when parsing the non-existent arguments to these. Follow best practice by using the "%s" format string for the string. Cleans up clang warning: format string is not a string literal (potentially insecure) [-Wformat-security] Fixes: e7f2b70fd3a9 ("staging: most: replace multiple if..else with table lookup") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/most/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/most/core.c b/drivers/staging/most/core.c index 6a18cf73c85e..18936cdb1083 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/most/core.c +++ b/drivers/staging/most/core.c @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ static ssize_t set_datatype_show(struct device *dev, for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(ch_data_type); i++) { if (c->cfg.data_type & ch_data_type[i].most_ch_data_type) - return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, ch_data_type[i].name); + return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s", ch_data_type[i].name); } return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "unconfigured\n"); } -- 2.19.1