linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm, percpu: Make sure percpu_alloc early parameter has an argument

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Date:	Sun, 25 Nov 2012 01:17:13 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm, percpu: Make sure percpu_alloc early parameter has an
 argument

Otherwise we are getting a nil dereference

 | [    0.000000] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
 | [    0.000000] IP: [<ffffffff81391360>] strcmp+0x10/0x30

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
---
 mm/percpu.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.git/mm/percpu.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/mm/percpu.c
+++ linux-2.6.git/mm/percpu.c
@@ -1380,6 +1380,9 @@ enum pcpu_fc pcpu_chosen_fc __initdata =
 
 static int __init percpu_alloc_setup(char *str)
 {
+	if (!str)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (0)
 		/* nada */;
 #ifdef CONFIG_NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK
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