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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Dec 17 2013 - 16:54:41 EST


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 01:17:51PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> 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).

Heh, while I do seem to maintain a ton of the drivers/ tree, I don't
take everything there. This needs to go through James's tree, he can
handle it :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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