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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>
GPG: 1D60 735E 8AEF 3BE4 73B6  9D84 7336 78FD 8DFE EAD4


             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-02 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-02 20:58 Thorsten Blum [this message]
2026-03-13 20:42 ` [PATCH] x86/boot: Fix NULL dereference for missing hugepagesz/hugepages value Borislav Petkov

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