Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:43:34 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: Bug in patch "x86/pti: Add the pti= cmdline option and documentation" |
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On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 05:41:32PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > The patch in the tip tree with commit 506bcdf68b07a0335751e1fe8be37 > ("x86/pti: Add the pti= cmdline option and documentation") is completely > wrong: cmdline_find_option() will return -1 in case the otion isn't > found and the len of the argument in case it has been found.
It is not completely wrong - we still walk into the if-branch. Besides, we moved the xen check upwards, before that so it is not relevant for the xen case.
Regardless, I'll send a correction soon to check the retval directly.
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