On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 05:41:32PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> The patch in the tip tree with commit 506bcdf68b07a0335751e1fe8be37
> ("x86/pti: Add the pti= cmdline option and documentation") is completely
> wrong: cmdline_find_option() will return -1 in case the otion isn't
> found and the len of the argument in case it has been found.
It is not completely wrong - we still walk into the if-branch. Besides,
we moved the xen check upwards, before that so it is not relevant for
the xen case.
Regardless, I'll send a correction soon to check the retval directly.
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