printk: handle blank console arguments passed in.
authorShreyas Joshi <shreyas.joshi@biamp.com>
Fri, 22 May 2020 06:53:06 +0000 (16:53 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 1 Oct 2020 18:40:14 +0000 (20:40 +0200)
commitd8593121dece252c684601ce32e4b33578566f6a
treece01f5805f201852226ec82b9081d2871c80a6a0
parent881e984e5c1d2fc60a776cf6f4627b514c4ea8f0
printk: handle blank console arguments passed in.

[ Upstream commit 48021f98130880dd74286459a1ef48b5e9bc374f ]

If uboot passes a blank string to console_setup then it results in
a trashed memory. Ultimately, the kernel crashes during freeing up
the memory.

This fix checks if there is a blank parameter being
passed to console_setup from uboot. In case it detects that
the console parameter is blank then it doesn't setup the serial
device and it gracefully exits.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200522065306.83-1-shreyas.joshi@biamp.com
Signed-off-by: Shreyas Joshi <shreyas.joshi@biamp.com>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
[pmladek@suse.com: Better format the commit message and code, remove unnecessary brackets.]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
kernel/printk/printk.c