The patch titled
fix kernel oops with badly formatted module option
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fix-kernel-oops-with-badly-formatted-module-option.patch
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Subject: fix kernel oops with badly formatted module option
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
Catch malformed kernel parameter usage of "param = value". Spaces are not
supported, but don't cause a kernel fault on such usage, just report an
error.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/params.c | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff -puN kernel/params.c~fix-kernel-oops-with-badly-formatted-module-option kernel/params.c
--- a/kernel/params.c~fix-kernel-oops-with-badly-formatted-module-option
+++ a/kernel/params.c
@@ -356,6 +356,10 @@ int param_set_copystring(const char *val
{
struct kparam_string *kps = kp->arg;
+ if (!val) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "%s: missing param set value\n", kp->name);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
if (strlen(val)+1 > kps->maxlen) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: string doesn't fit in %u chars.\n",
kp->name, kps->maxlen-1);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx are
fix-kernel-oops-with-badly-formatted-module-option.patch
git-acpi.patch
git-drm.patch
git-ieee1394.patch
romfs-printk-format-warnings.patch
git-netdev-all.patch
8250_pci-fix-pci-must_checks.patch
git-scsi-misc.patch
git-unionfs.patch
git-ipwireless_cs.patch
fix-mtrr-sections.patch
scripts-kernel-doc-whitespace-cleanup.patch
reiserfs-proc-support-requires-proc_fs.patch
kprobes-fix-sparse-null-warning.patch
header-cleaning-dont-include-smp_lockh-when-not-used.patch
expose-range-checking-functions-from-arch-specific.patch
parport_serial-fix-pci-must_checks.patch
doc-kernel-parameters-use-x86-32-tag-instead-of-ia-32.patch
kernel-doc-handle-arrays-with-arithmetic-expressions-as.patch
ext4-use-null-for-pointers.patch
some-grammatical-fixups-and-additions-to-atomich-kernel-doc.patch
s3fb-fix-pci-must_checks.patch
profile-likely-unlikely-macros.patch
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