This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
param: fix crash on bad kernel arguments
to the 3.17-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
param-fix-crash-on-bad-kernel-arguments.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3438cf549d2f3ee8e52c82acc8e2a9710ac21a5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:29:46 +1030
Subject: param: fix crash on bad kernel arguments
From: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 3438cf549d2f3ee8e52c82acc8e2a9710ac21a5b upstream.
Currently if the user passes an invalid value on the kernel command line
then the kernel will crash during argument parsing. On most systems this
is very hard to debug because the console hasn't been initialized yet.
This is a regression due to commit 51e158c12aca ("param: hand arguments
after -- straight to init") which, in response to the systemd debug
controversy, made it possible to explicitly pass arguments to init. To
achieve this parse_args() was extended from simply returning an error
code to returning a pointer. Regretably the new init args logic does not
perform a proper validity check on the pointer resulting in a crash.
This patch fixes the validity check. Should the check fail then no arguments
will be passed to init. This is reasonable and matches how the kernel treats
its own arguments (i.e. no error recovery).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
init/main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init start_k
static_command_line, __start___param,
__stop___param - __start___param,
-1, -1, &unknown_bootoption);
- if (after_dashes)
+ if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(after_dashes))
parse_args("Setting init args", after_dashes, NULL, 0, -1, -1,
set_init_arg);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.17/param-fix-crash-on-bad-kernel-arguments.patch
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