[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 028/168] x86: Require exact match for 'noxsave' command line option

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Dec 15 14:24:42 UTC 2014


3.16.7-ckt3 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at linux.intel.com>

commit 2cd3949f702692cf4c5d05b463f19cd706a92dd3 upstream.

We have some very similarly named command-line options:

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsave", x86_xsave_setup);
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsaveopt", x86_xsaveopt_setup);
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsaves", x86_xsaves_setup);

__setup() is designed to match options that take arguments, like
"foo=bar" where you would have:

	__setup("foo", x86_foo_func...);

The problem is that "noxsave" actually _matches_ "noxsaves" in
the same way that "foo" matches "foo=bar".  If you boot an old
kernel that does not know about "noxsaves" with "noxsaves" on the
command line, it will interpret the argument as "noxsave", which
is not what you want at all.

This makes the "noxsave" handler only return success when it finds
an *exact* match.

[ tglx: We really need to make __setup() more robust. ]

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu at intel.com>
Cc: x86 at kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141111220133.FE053984@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index ae52a082a01c..1f3a8885f836 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -146,6 +146,8 @@ EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL_GPL(gdt_page);
 
 static int __init x86_xsave_setup(char *s)
 {
+	if (strlen(s))
+		return 0;
 	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XSAVE);
 	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XSAVEOPT);
 	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX);
-- 
2.1.3





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