x86/apic: Fix parsing of the 'lapic' cmdline option
Including " lapic " in the kernel cmdline on an x86-64 kernel
makes it panic while parsing early params -- e.g. with no user
visible output.
Fix this bug by ensuring arg is non-NULL before passing it to
strncmp().
Reported-by: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361303227-13174-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.8
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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