[PATCH 3/5] x86: simplify early command line parsing

[Dave Hansen]

From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

__cmdline_find_option_bool() tries to account for both
NULL-terminated and non-NULL-terminated strings.  It keeps 'pos'
to look for the end of the buffer and also looks for '!c' in a
bunch of places to look for NULL termination.

But, it also calls strlen().  You can't call strlen on a
non-NULL-terminated string.

If !strlen(cmdline), then cmdline[0]=='\0'.  In that case, we
will go in to the while() loop, set c='\0', hit st_wordstart,
notice !c, and will immediately return 0.

So, remove the strlen().  It is unnecessary and unsafe.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx
---

 b/arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c |    3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff -puN arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c~x86-early-command-line-non-term arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c
--- a/arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c~x86-early-command-line-non-term	2015-12-22 11:56:59.454186167 -0800
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c	2015-12-22 11:56:59.457186302 -0800
@@ -39,9 +39,6 @@ int cmdline_find_option_bool(const char
 	if (!cmdline)
 		return -1;      /* No command line */
 
-	if (!strlen(cmdline))
-		return 0;
-
 	/*
 	 * This 'pos' check ensures we do not overrun
 	 * a non-NULL-terminated 'cmdline'
_
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