From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>,
Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] x86/boot: Fix NULL dereference for missing hugepagesz/hugepages value
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 21:58:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260302205901.39610-1-thorsten.blum@linux.dev> (raw)
In parse_gb_huge_pages(), 'val' can be NULL if '=' is missing from the
boot parameter. The code passes 'val' to memparse() and
simple_strtoull(), which can dereference NULL.
Reject 'hugepagesz' and 'hugepages' when no value has been provided and
log a warning.
Fixes: 9b912485e0e7 ("x86/boot/KASLR: Add two new functions for 1GB huge pages handling")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
index 3b0948ad449f..88ccc3b2c5aa 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
@@ -205,6 +205,11 @@ static void parse_gb_huge_pages(char *param, char *val)
char *p;
if (!strcmp(param, "hugepagesz")) {
+ if (!val) {
+ warn("Missing value in hugepagesz= boot parameter\n");
+ return;
+ }
+
p = val;
if (memparse(p, &p) != PUD_SIZE) {
gbpage_sz = false;
@@ -218,6 +223,11 @@ static void parse_gb_huge_pages(char *param, char *val)
}
if (!strcmp(param, "hugepages") && gbpage_sz) {
+ if (!val) {
+ warn("Missing value in hugepages= boot parameter\n");
+ return;
+ }
+
p = val;
max_gb_huge_pages = simple_strtoull(p, &p, 0);
return;
--
Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
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2026-03-13 20:42 ` [PATCH] x86/boot: Fix NULL dereference for missing hugepagesz/hugepages value Borislav Petkov
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