[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "sh: fix format string bug in stack tracer" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    sh: fix format string bug in stack tracer

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.22.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 8f8030f494bcbf163c41c4a365ff9c20cdaf882f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 14:46:20 -0700
Subject: sh: fix format string bug in stack tracer

commit a0c32761e73c9999cbf592b702f284221fea8040 upstream.

Kees reported the following error:

   arch/sh/kernel/dumpstack.c: In function 'print_trace_address':
   arch/sh/kernel/dumpstack.c:118:2: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]

Use the "%s" format so that it's impossible to interpret 'data' as a
format string.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal at linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/sh/kernel/dumpstack.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/sh/kernel/dumpstack.c
index 7617dc4..e11f197 100644
--- a/arch/sh/kernel/dumpstack.c
+++ b/arch/sh/kernel/dumpstack.c
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static int print_trace_stack(void *data, char *name)
  */
 static void print_trace_address(void *data, unsigned long addr, int reliable)
 {
-	printk(data);
+	printk("%s", (char *)data);
 	printk_address(addr, reliable);
 }

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