From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 10:54:40 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: mm/hugetlb: fix early boot crash on parameters without '=' separator
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c45b354911d01565156e38d7f6bc07edb51fc34c;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

mm/hugetlb: fix early boot crash on parameters without '=' separator

If hugepages, hugepagesz, or default_hugepagesz are specified on the
kernel command line without the '=' separator, early parameter parsing
passes NULL to hugetlb_add_param(), which dereferences it in strlen() and
can crash the system during early boot.

Reject NULL values in hugetlb_add_param() and return -EINVAL instead.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260409105437.108686-4-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Fixes: 5b47c02967ab ("mm/hugetlb: convert cmdline parameters from setup to early")
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 88009cd2a846..e8024574a2d4 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -4226,6 +4226,9 @@ static __init int hugetlb_add_param(char *s, int (*setup)(char *))
 	size_t len;
 	char *p;
 
+	if (!s)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (hugetlb_param_index >= HUGE_MAX_CMDLINE_ARGS)
 		return -EINVAL;