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authorWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>2007-05-01 06:53:01 +0000
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>2007-05-01 06:53:01 +0000
commit48a7afe314bfc4d7f50e1608632f503dbba7e013 (patch)
tree4a80e6b96321a71affd1bacea817de93be08894b /kernel/params.c
parent[WATCHDOG] Semi-typical watchdog bug re early misc_register() (diff)
parentlibata: honour host controllers that want just one host (diff)
Merge /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/params.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/params.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index e265b13195b1..1fc4ac746cd8 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -356,6 +356,10 @@ int param_set_copystring(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp)
{
struct kparam_string *kps = kp->arg;
+ if (!val) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "%s: missing param set value\n", kp->name);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
if (strlen(val)+1 > kps->maxlen) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: string doesn't fit in %u chars.\n",
kp->name, kps->maxlen-1);