On Wed, 2015-07-01 at 14:19 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: > Did you hit this by passing "efi=" on the kernel command line? I hit this by passing "efi" alone. "efi=" works well because the pointer points to a valid string that only contains \0. > > I would have assumed that the generic early param parsing code would > have caught this problem since it's obviously a potential issue for > every other early_param() function, and so needs to be solved in a > more > general way. Yes, I was dubious on where to apply the patch. I saw that parse_option_str does not check for the validity of the pointers. That might seem to be a more general fix. I'll take that route. Thanks and BR, Ricardo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
