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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
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
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 13:57:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080709115746.GA19060@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <486f61a9.1e35440a.5815.ffffbc7d@mx.google.com>


* Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-09 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-05 11:53 [patch 0/5] early params NULL pointer deref fix Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-07-09 11:57 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-07-09 15:25   ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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