On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 08:56:58PM +0800, He Zhe wrote:
> May I have your input?

Alternatively would it make more sense for it to assume some default
value?
> 
> Thanks,
> Zhe
> 
> On 2018年09月17日 11:27, [email protected] wrote:
> > From: He Zhe <[email protected]>
> >
> > setup_io_tlb_npages does not check input argument before passing it
> > to isdigit. The argument would be a NULL pointer if "swiotlb", without
> > its value, is set in command line and thus causes the following panic.
> >
> > PANIC: early exception 0xe3 IP 10:ffffffffbb9b8e9f error 0 cr2 0x0
> > [    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 
> > 4.19.0-rc3-yocto-standard+ #9
> > [    0.000000] RIP: 0010:setup_io_tlb_npages+0xf/0x95
> > ...
> > [    0.000000] Call Trace:
> > [    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/0x4e6
> > [    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.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: He Zhe <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > ---
> >  kernel/dma/swiotlb.c | 5 +++++
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
> > index 4f8a6db..46fc34e 100644
> > --- a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
> > +++ b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
> > @@ -109,6 +109,11 @@ static int late_alloc;
> >  static int __init
> >  setup_io_tlb_npages(char *str)
> >  {
> > +   if (!str) {
> > +           pr_err("Config string not provided\n");
> > +           return -EINVAL;
> > +   }
> > +
> >     if (isdigit(*str)) {
> >             io_tlb_nslabs = simple_strtoul(str, &str, 0);
> >             /* avoid tail segment of size < IO_TLB_SEGSIZE */
> 
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