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    x86/boot: Simplify early command line parsing · 4de07ea4
    Dave Hansen authored
    __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: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav 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.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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