x86/apic: Fix parsing of the 'lapic' cmdline option
authorMathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:47:07 +0000 (20:47 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:24:36 +0000 (11:24 +0100)
commit27cf929845b10043f2257693c7d179a9e0b1980e
tree2482f628f968f05c18dda63dc09c16825d0d24ab
parentece8e0b2f9c980e5511fe8db2d68c6f1859b9d83
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>
arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c