When the cmm module is compiled into the kernel it will crash when
writing to the R/O data section.
Reason is the lower to upper case conversion of the "sender" module
parameter which ignored the fact that the pointer is preinitialized.
Introduced with
41b42876 "cmm, smsgiucv_app: convert sender to
uppercase"
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
#include <asm/diag.h>
-static char *sender = "VMRMSVM";
+#ifdef CONFIG_CMM_IUCV
+static char *cmm_default_sender = "VMRMSVM";
+#endif
+static char *sender;
module_param(sender, charp, 0400);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(sender,
"Guest name that may send SMSG messages (default VMRMSVM)");
int len = strlen(sender);
while (len--)
sender[len] = toupper(sender[len]);
+ } else {
+ sender = cmm_default_sender;
}
rc = smsg_register_callback(SMSG_PREFIX, cmm_smsg_target);