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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:04:43 -0800 (PST)
From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: apic: Fix parsing of lapic cmdline option
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2013, Mathias Krause wrote:

> 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().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
> Reported-by: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# v3.8

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>