Commit abcdc1c6 authored by Dave Hansen's avatar Dave Hansen Committed by Ingo Molnar

x86/boot: Fix early command-line parsing when partial word matches

cmdline_find_option_bool() keeps track of position in two strings:

 1. the command-line
 2. the option we are searchign for in the command-line

We plow through each character in the command-line one at a time, always
moving forward. We move forward in the option ('opptr') when we match
characters in 'cmdline'. We reset the 'opptr' only when we go in to the
'st_wordstart' state.

But, if we fail to match an option because we see a space
(state=st_wordcmp, *opptr='\0',c=' '), we set state='st_wordskip' and
'break', moving to the next character. But, that move to the next
character is the one *after* the ' '. This means that we will miss a
'st_wordstart' state.

For instance, if we have

  cmdline = "foo fool";

and are searching for "fool", we have:

	  "fool"
  opptr = ----^

           "foo fool"
   c = --------^

We see that 'l' != ' ', set state=st_wordskip, break, and then move 'c', so:

          "foo fool"
  c = ---------^

and are still in state=st_wordskip. We will stay in wordskip until we
have skipped "fool", thus missing the option we were looking for. This
*only* happens when you have a partially- matching word followed by a
matching one.

To fix this, we always fall *into* the 'st_wordskip' state when we set
it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav 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/20151222225239.8E1DCA58@viggo.jf.intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 02afeaae
...@@ -72,18 +72,26 @@ int cmdline_find_option_bool(const char *cmdline, const char *option) ...@@ -72,18 +72,26 @@ int cmdline_find_option_bool(const char *cmdline, const char *option)
*/ */
if (!c || myisspace(c)) if (!c || myisspace(c))
return wstart; return wstart;
else /*
state = st_wordskip; * We hit the end of the option, but _not_
* the end of a word on the cmdline. Not
* a match.
*/
} else if (!c) { } else if (!c) {
/* /*
* Hit the NULL terminator on the end of * Hit the NULL terminator on the end of
* cmdline. * cmdline.
*/ */
return 0; return 0;
} else if (c != *opptr++) { } else if (c == *opptr++) {
state = st_wordskip; /*
* We are currently matching, so continue
* to the next character on the cmdline.
*/
break;
} }
break; state = st_wordskip;
/* fall through */
case st_wordskip: case st_wordskip:
if (!c) if (!c)
......
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