From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756271AbYGIL6S (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:58:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755076AbYGIL6F (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:58:05 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:54631 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751834AbYGIL6D (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:58:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 13:57:48 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, andi@firstfloor.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] early params NULL pointer deref fix Message-ID: <20080709115746.GA19060@elte.hu> References: <486f61a9.1e35440a.5815.ffffbc7d@mx.google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <486f61a9.1e35440a.5815.ffffbc7d@mx.google.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Cyrill Gorcunov 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