diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c
index c5c61b3c6b56..32b61d1b6379 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ unsigned long safe_compute_effective_address(struct pt_regs *regs,
 /* This is just to make gcc think panic does return... */
 static void unaligned_panic(char *str)
 {
-	panic(str);
+	panic("%s", str);
 }
 
 /* una_asm.S */