Re: [PATCH] Re: kernel oops with badly formatted module option

[Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>]

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 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 <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
>
> 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 <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
It works here.  ACKed by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>

> ---
>  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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