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| author | Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> | 2013-02-19 20:47:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-02-20 11:24:36 +0100 |
| commit | 27cf929845b10043f2257693c7d179a9e0b1980e (patch) | |
| tree | 2482f628f968f05c18dda63dc09c16825d0d24ab /arch/x86/kernel | |
| parent | ece8e0b2f9c980e5511fe8db2d68c6f1859b9d83 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-27cf929845b10043f2257693c7d179a9e0b1980e.tar.gz lwn-27cf929845b10043f2257693c7d179a9e0b1980e.zip | |
x86/apic: Fix parsing of the 'lapic' cmdline option
Including " lapic " in the kernel cmdline on an x86-64 kernel
makes it panic while parsing early params -- e.g. with no user
visible output.
Fix this bug by ensuring arg is non-NULL before passing it to
strncmp().
Reported-by: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361303227-13174-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.8
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c index a5b4dce1b7ac..904611bf0e5a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static int __init parse_lapic(char *arg) { if (config_enabled(CONFIG_X86_32) && !arg) force_enable_local_apic = 1; - else if (!strncmp(arg, "notscdeadline", 13)) + else if (arg && !strncmp(arg, "notscdeadline", 13)) setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER); return 0; } |