Re: [patch 0/5] early params NULL pointer deref fix

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Jul 09 2008 - 07:58:21 EST



* Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This series fix a possible NULL pointer deref in case if user was
> stupid enough to pass boot parameter without a mandatory value
>
> Actually there is a number of such issues on other platforms too
> (like powerpc, sh, s390) so I think it should be fixed too (any
> volunteers?)
>
> Any comments are welcome.

thanks Cyrill, i picked them up.

I'm wondering, would it be possible to filter NULL out on one higher
level? Would it break any existing functionality? (i dont think it would
or should)

Ingo
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