diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 34211dac208b9d..b1ab862423b335 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ static void register_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
 
 	ddev->parent = disk->driverfs_dev;
 
-	dev_set_name(ddev, disk->disk_name);
+	dev_set_name(ddev, "%s", disk->disk_name);
 
 	/* delay uevents, until we scanned partition table */
 	dev_set_uevent_suppress(ddev, 1);
diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index 061427a75d375a..153361e82e814a 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -657,7 +657,8 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct nbd_device *nbd,
 
 		mutex_unlock(&nbd->tx_lock);
 
-		thread = kthread_create(nbd_thread, nbd, nbd->disk->disk_name);
+		thread = kthread_create(nbd_thread, nbd, "%s",
+					nbd->disk->disk_name);
 		if (IS_ERR(thread)) {
 			mutex_lock(&nbd->tx_lock);
 			return PTR_ERR(thread);
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c b/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c
index d4ed9eb526572e..caac1b28465aba 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ static int osd_probe(struct device *dev)
 	oud->class_dev.class = &osd_uld_class;
 	oud->class_dev.parent = dev;
 	oud->class_dev.release = __remove;
-	error = dev_set_name(&oud->class_dev, disk->disk_name);
+	error = dev_set_name(&oud->class_dev, "%s", disk->disk_name);
 	if (error) {
 		OSD_ERR("dev_set_name failed => %d\n", error);
 		goto err_put_cdev;