Re: 2.6.11.7 kernel panic on boot on AMD64

[Alexander Nyberg]

> Ok. If you really had such a overlong command line it is ok.
> 
> We should probably check this condition better too and error out.
> 

How about something like this then (I was thinking making it a panic but
not sure). I think it's a good idea to give some kind of indication so
that there is at least some message when the user discovers that some
things specified on cmdline don't start/work.


Check if the user specified a too long kernel command line and warn
about it being truncated. 

Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@xxxxxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6/init/main.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/init/main.c	2005-04-26 11:41:57.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/init/main.c	2005-04-29 20:28:44.000000000 +0200
@@ -456,6 +456,8 @@
 	build_all_zonelists();
 	page_alloc_init();
 	printk(KERN_NOTICE "Kernel command line: %s\n", saved_command_line);
+	if (strlen(saved_command_line) == COMMAND_LINE_SIZE-1)
+		printk(KERN_ALERT "WARNING: Too long command line! Truncated.\n");
 	parse_early_param();
 	parse_args("Booting kernel", command_line, __start___param,
 		   __stop___param - __start___param,




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