From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754900AbYGEL6d (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 07:58:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752672AbYGEL5g (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 07:57:36 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.190]:24455 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751684AbYGEL5d (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 07:57:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=user-agent:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id; b=mrIBXJ02TaFT4pTvy2G48YuJl03zXqvFfm1+WoZkOmqRx9/UvKwFUHUiXOp8kCyHAl 0JnBIc3p+T7qJJx/GCHaWCJsLkc1DnSN3ccq7Jxz2k532WgdWKqyuKh7jSCicSnc8+7I pU1ayuOq3PXZ+zErbYiGbjQr2LKKDG/uCvg0I= User-Agent: quilt/0.46-1 Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:53:34 +0400 From: Cyrill Gorcunov To: mingo@elte.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, andi@firstfloor.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [patch 0/5] early params NULL pointer deref fix Message-ID: <486f61a9.1e35440a.5815.ffffbc7d@mx.google.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. - Cyrill - --