From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: fix early boot crash on parameters without '=' separator
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 12:54:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260409105437.108686-4-thorsten.blum@linux.dev> (raw)
If hugepages, hugepagesz, or default_hugepagesz are specified on the
kernel command line without the '=' separator, early parameter parsing
passes NULL to hugetlb_add_param(), which dereferences it in strlen()
and can crash the system during early boot.
Reject NULL values in hugetlb_add_param() and return -EINVAL instead.
Fixes: 5b47c02967ab ("mm/hugetlb: convert cmdline parameters from setup to early")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 327eaa4074d3..9fda39132d26 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -4252,6 +4252,9 @@ static __init int hugetlb_add_param(char *s, int (*setup)(char *))
size_t len;
char *p;
+ if (!s)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
if (hugetlb_param_index >= HUGE_MAX_CMDLINE_ARGS)
return -EINVAL;
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-09 10:56 UTC|newest]
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2026-04-09 10:54 Thorsten Blum [this message]
2026-04-09 11:03 ` [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: fix early boot crash on parameters without '=' separator Muchun Song
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