From: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am•sony.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: minor fix for bootargs property
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:35:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45255064.3080602@am.sony.com> (raw)
Avoid the use of an uninitialized stack variable when the powerpc device tree
bootargs property is either missing or incorrectly defined. This also makes
CONFIG_CMDLINE work properly under these conditions. This change adds a test
for the existence of the bootargs property.
early_init_dt_scan_chosen() tests for a zero length bootargs property in its
CONFIG_CMDLINE processing, but the current implementation of
of_get_flat_dt_prop() doesn't assign a value to the length when no property is
found. Since an automatic variable is used, a stale value from the stack will
be used in the test.
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am•sony.com>
---
Index: cell--common--5/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
===================================================================
--- cell--common--5.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ cell--common--5/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -724,7 +724,7 @@
strlcpy(cmd_line, p, min((int)l, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE));
#ifdef CONFIG_CMDLINE
- if (l == 0 || (l == 1 && (*p) == 0))
+ if (p == NULL || l == 0 || (l == 1 && (*p) == 0))
strlcpy(cmd_line, CONFIG_CMDLINE, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE);
#endif /* CONFIG_CMDLINE */
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