releases/3.2.98/x86-boot-simplify-early-command-line-parsing.patch

From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 14:52:41 -0800
Subject: x86/boot: Simplify early command line parsing

commit 4de07ea481361b08fe13735004dafae862482d38 upstream.

__cmdline_find_option_bool() tries to account for both NULL-terminated
and non-NULL-terminated strings. It keeps 'pos' to look for the end of
the buffer and also looks for '!c' in a bunch of places to look for NULL
termination.

But, it also calls strlen(). You can't call strlen on a
non-NULL-terminated string.

If !strlen(cmdline), then cmdline[0]=='\0'. In that case, we will go in
to the while() loop, set c='\0', hit st_wordstart, notice !c, and will
immediately return 0.

So, remove the strlen().  It is unnecessary and unsafe.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: yu-cheng.yu@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151222225241.15365E43@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
 arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c b/arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c
index ff8d1beead6c..945a639c02dd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c
@@ -39,9 +39,6 @@ int cmdline_find_option_bool(const char *cmdline, const char *option)
 	if (!cmdline)
 		return -1;      /* No command line */
 
-	if (!strlen(cmdline))
-		return 0;
-
 	/*
 	 * This 'pos' check ensures we do not overrun
 	 * a non-NULL-terminated 'cmdline'