commit: 27cf929845b10043f2257693c7d179a9e0b1980e
From: Mathias Krause <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:47:07 +0100
Subject: x86/apic: Fix parsing of the 'lapic' cmdline option

Including " lapic " in the kernel cmdline on an x86-64 kernel
makes it panic while parsing early params -- e.g. with no user
visible output.

Fix this bug by ensuring arg is non-NULL before passing it to
strncmp().

Reported-by: PaX Team <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <[email protected]>
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Cc: [email protected]      # v3.8
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
index a5b4dce..904611b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static int __init parse_lapic(char *arg)
 {
        if (config_enabled(CONFIG_X86_32) && !arg)
                force_enable_local_apic = 1;
-       else if (!strncmp(arg, "notscdeadline", 13))
+       else if (arg && !strncmp(arg, "notscdeadline", 13))
                setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER);
        return 0;
 }
-- 
1.7.10.4
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