[PATCH] fix kernel oops with badly formatted module option
Catch malformed kernel parameter usage of "param = value". Spaces are not
supported, but don't cause a kernel fault on such usage, just report an
error.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index e265b13..1fc4ac7 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -356,6 +356,10 @@
{
struct kparam_string *kps = kp->arg;
+ if (!val) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "%s: missing param set value\n", kp->name);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
if (strlen(val)+1 > kps->maxlen) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: string doesn't fit in %u chars.\n",
kp->name, kps->maxlen-1);
