[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 56/64] printk: handle blank console arguments passed in.

Sasha Levin
2020-09-18T02:18:57Z

From: Shreyas Joshi <shreyas.joshi@biamp.com>

[ Upstream commit 48021f98130880dd74286459a1ef48b5e9bc374f ]

If uboot passes a blank string to console_setup then it results in
a trashed memory. Ultimately, the kernel crashes during freeing up
the memory.

This fix checks if there is a blank parameter being
passed to console_setup from uboot. In case it detects that
the console parameter is blank then it doesn't setup the serial
device and it gracefully exits.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200522065306.83-1-shreyas.joshi@biamp.com
Signed-off-by: Shreyas Joshi <shreyas.joshi@biamp.com>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
[pmladek@suse.com: Better format the commit message and code, remove unnecessary brackets.]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
kernel/printk/printk.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index e53a976ca28ea..b55dfb3e801f9 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -2032,6 +2032,9 @@ static int __init console_setup(char *str)
char *s, *options, *brl_options = NULL;
int idx;

+ if (str[0] == 0)
+ return 1;
+
if (_braille_console_setup(&str, &brl_options))
return 1;

--
2.25.1