Commit 888e7ee2 authored by Dave Hansen's avatar Dave Hansen Committed by Ben Hutchings

x86: Require exact match for 'noxsave' command line option

commit 2cd3949f 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: default avatarDave 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.comSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
parent 07ea3ff9
......@@ -140,6 +140,8 @@ 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);
return 1;
......
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