On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 19:21:01 -0500 Larry Finger wrote:
> With the following line in /etc/modprobe.conf.local:
>
> options bcm43xx fwpostfix = ".fw3" locale=8
>
> the kernel oops below is generated. I realize that the line should have no whitespace around the
> "=", but I do not feel that an oops is the best way to report the syntax error. Could there be a more gentle failure?
From: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Catch malformed kernel parameter usage of "param = value".
Spaces are not supported, but don't cause a kernel fault on
such usage, just report an error.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
---
kernel/params.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- linux-2.6.21-rc6.orig/kernel/params.c
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc6/kernel/params.c
@@ -356,6 +356,10 @@ int param_set_copystring(const char *val
{
struct kparam_string *kps = kp->arg;
+ if (!val) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "%s: missing param set value\n", kp->name);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
if (strlen(val)+1 > kps->maxlen) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: string doesn't fit in %u chars.\n",
kp->name, kps->maxlen-1);
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