The patch titled acpi: add checking for NULL early param has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is acpi-add-checking-for-null-early-param.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: acpi: add checking for NULL early param From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/tables.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/acpi/tables.c~acpi-add-checking-for-null-early-param drivers/acpi/tables.c --- a/drivers/acpi/tables.c~acpi-add-checking-for-null-early-param +++ a/drivers/acpi/tables.c @@ -300,6 +300,8 @@ int __init acpi_table_init(void) static int __init acpi_parse_apic_instance(char *str) { + if (!str) + return -EINVAL; acpi_apic_instance = simple_strtoul(str, NULL, 0); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch acpi-add-checking-for-null-early-param.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html