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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)
committerLuis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
Mon, 1 Dec 2014 10:02:14 +0000 (10:02 +0000)
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: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c

index ae52a082a01cc0c0858658c4f46484f1c010b500..1f3a8885f83652164c4802a4c7621a634e5e399b 100644 (file)
@@ -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);