On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:09:18PM +0800, Zhang Yanfei wrote: > ? 2013?04?08? 17:29, Zhang Yanfei ??: > > ? 2013?04?08? 17:23, Wang YanQing ??: > >> This patch prevents the problems to happen below: > >> In setup_linux_bootloader_parameters_high > >> 120 cmdline_ptr = ((char *)real_mode) + cmdline_offset; > >> 121 memcpy(cmdline_ptr, cmdline, cmdline_len); > >> 122 cmdline_ptr[cmdline_len - 1] = '\0'; > >> > >> if cmdline_len == 0, Line 122 will corrupt kernel16 buf just before the commandline. > >> And in do_bzImage_load, for example, > >> 369 cmdline_end = setup_base + kern16_size_needed + command_line_len - 1; > >> 370 elf_rel_set_symbol(&info->rhdr, "cmdline_end", &cmdline_end, > >> 371 sizeof(unsigned long)); > >> Line 369 will go wrong, too. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight at gmail.com> > >> --- > >> Hi Zhang Yanfei, could you give your signed-off-by to > >> this patch? > > > > Yeah. > > > > Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei at cn.fujitsu.com> > > > > Hi Simon, could you please take a look at this to see if the change is reasonable? > > After all, if no commadline, we make the commandline_len to 1. I don't know if > > this behaviour could be accepted by you. > > > > Hi Simon > > What is your opinion about this patch? It seems reasonable to me, I have applied it. I have added your Signed-off-by. However, for reference: unless you are the maintainer or were involved in writing the patch I think an Acked-by or Tested-by would be more appropriate.