x86/apic: Fix parsing of the 'lapic' cmdline option

Including " lapic " in the kernel cmdline on an x86-64 kernel
makes it panic while parsing early params -- e.g. with no user
visible output.

Fix this bug by ensuring arg is non-NULL before passing it to
strncmp().

Reported-by: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361303227-13174-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# v3.8
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
index a5b4dce1b7ac..904611bf0e5a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static int __init parse_lapic(char *arg)
 {
         if (config_enabled(CONFIG_X86_32) && !arg)
                 force_enable_local_apic = 1;
-        else if (!strncmp(arg, "notscdeadline", 13))
+        else if (arg && !strncmp(arg, "notscdeadline", 13))
                 setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER);
         return 0;
 }