3.16.56-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com
commit 9de29eac8d2189424d81c0d840cd0469aa3d41c8 upstream.
If i == ARRAY_SIZE(mitigation_options) then we accidentally print garbage from one space beyond the end of the mitigation_options[] array.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Cc: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: KarimAllah Ahmed karahmed@amazon.de Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 9005c6834c0f ("x86/spectre: Simplify spectre_v2 command line parsing") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180214071416.GA26677@mwanda Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk --- --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -237,8 +237,7 @@ static enum spectre_v2_mitigation_cmd __ }
if (i >= ARRAY_SIZE(mitigation_options)) { - pr_err("unknown option (%s). Switching to AUTO select\n", - mitigation_options[i].option); + pr_err("unknown option (%s). Switching to AUTO select\n", arg); return SPECTRE_V2_CMD_AUTO; } }