linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] proc_sysctl: fix oops caused by incorrect command parameters.

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Date:   Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:14:08 +0800
From:   Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@...wei.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] proc_sysctl: fix oops caused by incorrect command
 parameters.

On 2021/1/9 17:10, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 
> 
> On Friday, January 8, 2021, Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@...wei.com 
> <mailto:nixiaoming@...wei.com>> wrote:
> 
>     The process_sysctl_arg() does not check whether val is empty before
>       invoking strlen(val). If the command line parameter () is incorrectly
>       configured and val is empty, oops is triggered.
> 
>     For example, "hung_task_panic=1" is incorrectly written as
>     "hung_task_panic".
> 
>     log:
> 
> 
> Can you drop redundant (not significant) lines from the log to avoid 
> noisy commit message?
> 
ok,
Thank you for your advice.
I will update it in v3 patch.

Thanks

Xiaoming Ni.