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authorCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>2008-07-31 20:52:21 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-08-06 09:03:12 -0700
commit7cdece1700d9ac159742ee6e4e89a52389818297 (patch)
tree7a23aa9fe4af836bbbc143a4fa50080cfb761cf1 /arch
parentc4ec1c369322fc6dd1512975e11d2d2abe90a705 (diff)
x86: idle process - add checking for NULL early param
[ Upstream commit ab6bc3e343fbe3be4a0f67225e849d0db6b4b7ac ] Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index ba370dc8685b..58325a6604a4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ void __cpuinit select_idle_routine(const struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
static int __init idle_setup(char *str)
{
+ if (!str)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
if (!strcmp(str, "poll")) {
printk("using polling idle threads.\n");
pm_idle = poll_idle;