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From: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, hpa@zytor.com, fenghua.yu@intel.com,
	yu-cheng.yu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86: simplify early command line parsing
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 09:35:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <568D5073.8070400@sr71.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160106171044.GB20321@pd.tnic>

On 01/06/2016 09:10 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> > diff -puN arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c~x86-early-command-line-non-term arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c
>> > --- a/arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c~x86-early-command-line-non-term	2015-12-22 11:56:59.454186167 -0800
>> > +++ b/arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c	2015-12-22 11:56:59.457186302 -0800
>> > @@ -39,9 +39,6 @@ int cmdline_find_option_bool(const char
>> >  	if (!cmdline)
>> >  		return -1;      /* No command line */
>> >  
>> > -	if (!strlen(cmdline))
>> > -		return 0;
>> > -
> Patch 1 adds the strlen(), this patch removes it. Please merge both patches.

Yes, it adds a line that uses strlen.  But, there was already the use in
the min_t() "call":

> -	len = min_t(int, strlen(cmdline), COMMAND_LINE_SIZE);
> -	if (!len)
> +	if (!strlen(cmdline))
>  		return 0;

I wanted to separate the two things because they really fix two separate
issues.  I also want to ensure that any problems that this patch causes
can be isolated to the smallest change possible.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-06 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-22 22:52 [PATCH 0/5] x86: early command-line parsing fixes / tests (v2) Dave Hansen
2015-12-22 22:52 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86: fix early command-line parsing when matching at end Dave Hansen
2016-01-05 18:35   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-05 18:51     ` Dave Hansen
2016-01-06 17:10   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-06 17:57   ` Dave Hansen
2016-01-06 18:14     ` Borislav Petkov
2016-02-03 11:34   ` [tip:x86/boot] x86/boot: Fix " tip-bot for Dave Hansen
2015-12-22 22:52 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86: fix early command-line parsing, when partial word match Dave Hansen
2016-02-03 11:35   ` [tip:x86/boot] x86/boot: Fix early command-line parsing when partial word matches tip-bot for Dave Hansen
2015-12-22 22:52 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86: simplify early command line parsing Dave Hansen
2016-01-06 17:10   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-06 17:35     ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2016-01-06 17:37     ` Dave Hansen
2016-01-06 17:48       ` Borislav Petkov
2016-02-03 11:35   ` [tip:x86/boot] x86/boot: Simplify " tip-bot for Dave Hansen
2015-12-22 22:52 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86: pass in size to early cmdline parsing Dave Hansen
2016-02-03 11:36   ` [tip:x86/boot] x86/boot: Pass " tip-bot for Dave Hansen
2015-12-22 22:52 ` [PATCH 5/5] x86: test early command-line code Dave Hansen
2016-01-27 12:28   ` Borislav Petkov

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