Re: [patch 1/2] acpi: add checking for NULL early param

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akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> The early_param handling function could recieve NULL pointer as argument
> in case if user didn't enter parameter value.  So we have to be ready for
> a such situation and do check for NULL pointer if needed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Queued for 2.6.27. Thanks.

But I wonder if it wouldn't be generally safer for the caller to just pass
an empty string instead of NULL in this case?

-Andi
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