[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>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index e265b13195b1..1fc4ac746cd8 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -356,6 +356,10 @@ int param_set_copystring(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp)
 {
         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);