3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: He Zhe <zhe.he@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 277fcdb2cfee38ccdbe07e705dbd4896ba0c9930 upstream. log_buf_len_setup does not check input argument before passing it to simple_strtoull. The argument would be a NULL pointer if "log_buf_len", without its value, is set in command line and thus causes the following panic. PANIC: early exception 0xe3 IP 10:ffffffffaaeacd0d error 0 cr2 0x0 [ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.19.0-rc4-yocto-standard+ #1 [ 0.000000] RIP: 0010:_parse_integer_fixup_radix+0xd/0x70 ... [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] simple_strtoull+0x29/0x70 [ 0.000000] memparse+0x26/0x90 [ 0.000000] log_buf_len_setup+0x17/0x22 [ 0.000000] do_early_param+0x57/0x8e [ 0.000000] parse_args+0x208/0x320 [ 0.000000] ? rdinit_setup+0x30/0x30 [ 0.000000] parse_early_options+0x29/0x2d [ 0.000000] ? rdinit_setup+0x30/0x30 [ 0.000000] parse_early_param+0x36/0x4d [ 0.000000] setup_arch+0x336/0x99e [ 0.000000] start_kernel+0x6f/0x4ee [ 0.000000] x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x26 [ 0.000000] x86_64_start_kernel+0x6f/0x72 [ 0.000000] secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0 This patch adds a check to prevent the panic. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1538239553-81805-1-git-send-email-zhe.he@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: He Zhe <zhe.he@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/printk/printk.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c @@ -844,7 +844,12 @@ static void __init log_buf_len_update(un /* save requested log_buf_len since it's too early to process it */ static int __init log_buf_len_setup(char *str) { - unsigned size = memparse(str, &str); + unsigned int size; + + if (!str) + return -EINVAL; + + size = memparse(str, &str); log_buf_len_update(size);
