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(). Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <[email protected]> Reported-by: PaX Team <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] # v3.8 --- arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c index b994cc8..cbf5121 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; } -- 1.7.10.4 -- 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/
