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x86: Require exact match for 'noxsave' command line option
authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:01:33 +0000 (14:01 -0800)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Sat, 6 Dec 2014 14:14:50 +0000 (15:14 +0100)
commit64d6bef08627721e538f457da75cf43aa64f838b
treee441424df76ede9f174ec59e09a4ba5c2c67a0ba
parentae0256eb36f88f75533d57c957cc73a2660e1327
x86: Require exact match for 'noxsave' command line option

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@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141111220133.FE053984@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c