From ab6bc3e343fbe3be4a0f67225e849d0db6b4b7ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cyrill Gorcunov Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:53:36 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] x86: idle process - add checking for NULL early param Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) 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;