From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: + acpi-add-checking-for-null-early-param.patch added to -mm tree Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:53:44 -0700 Message-ID: <200807220953.m6M9riwL021908@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Reply-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:49512 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751131AbYGVJxu (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:53:50 -0400 Sender: mm-commits-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com, andi@firstfloor.org The patch titled acpi: add checking for NULL early param has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is acpi-add-checking-for-null-early-param.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: acpi: add checking for NULL early param From: Cyrill Gorcunov Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/acpi/tables.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/acpi/tables.c~acpi-add-checking-for-null-early-param drivers/acpi/tables.c --- a/drivers/acpi/tables.c~acpi-add-checking-for-null-early-param +++ a/drivers/acpi/tables.c @@ -300,6 +300,8 @@ int __init acpi_table_init(void) static int __init acpi_parse_apic_instance(char *str) { + if (!str) + return -EINVAL; acpi_apic_instance = simple_strtoul(str, NULL, 0); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from gorcunov@gmail.com are origin.patch linux-next.patch acpi-add-checking-for-null-early-param.patch