x86/boot: Fix early command-line parsing when matching at end
authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:52:38 +0000 (14:52 -0800)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sun, 7 Jan 2018 01:46:51 +0000 (01:46 +0000)
commit8f14962f8692669ba6bd4812a7e21b7fe4acd22e
tree1898a64fb42f3b6ca78abae4e51a09ecc2f5cd04
parentcbc1d40044e0104bb4be32d6f9336bdc58a3d0ff
x86/boot: Fix early command-line parsing when matching at end

commit 02afeaae9843733a39cd9b11053748b2d1dc5ae7 upstream.

The x86 early command line parsing in cmdline_find_option_bool() is
buggy. If it matches a specified 'option' all the way to the end of the
command-line, it will consider it a match.

For instance,

  cmdline = "foo";
  cmdline_find_option_bool(cmdline, "fool");

will return 1. This is particularly annoying since we have actual FPU
options like "noxsave" and "noxsaves" So, command-line "foo bar noxsave"
will match *BOTH* a "noxsave" and "noxsaves". (This turns out not to be
an actual problem because "noxsave" implies "noxsaves", but it's still
confusing.)

To fix this, we simplify the code and stop tracking 'len'. 'len'
was trying to indicate either the NULL terminator *OR* the end of a
non-NULL-terminated command line at 'COMMAND_LINE_SIZE'. But, each of the
three states is *already* checking 'cmdline' for a NULL terminator.

We _only_ need to check if we have overrun 'COMMAND_LINE_SIZE', and that
we can do without keeping 'len' around.

Also add some commends to clarify what is going on.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav 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/20151222225238.9AEB560C@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c