3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Mathias Krause <[email protected]> commit 27cf929845b10043f2257693c7d179a9e0b1980e upstream. 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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <[email protected]> Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: Suresh Siddha <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- 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; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
