From: Ye Liu If the kernel command line includes "debug_guardpage_minorder" without an equals sign (i.e., no value is provided), the early parameter parser passes a NULL buf pointer to the setup function. kstrtouint() does not perform a NULL check on its input and calls directly into kstrtoull() which dereferences s[0] unconditionally, leading to a NULL pointer dereference and early boot crash. Additionally, the error path's pr_err("%s", buf) would also crash with a NULL format argument. Signed-off-by: Ye Liu --- mm/debug_page_alloc.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/debug_page_alloc.c b/mm/debug_page_alloc.c index 41e3d1f1ad96..fd2664c3c86a 100644 --- a/mm/debug_page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/debug_page_alloc.c @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ static int __init debug_guardpage_minorder_setup(char *buf) { unsigned int res; - if (kstrtouint(buf, 10, &res) < 0 || res > MAX_PAGE_ORDER / 2) { - pr_err("Bad debug_guardpage_minorder value: %s\n", buf); + if (!buf || kstrtouint(buf, 10, &res) < 0 || res > MAX_PAGE_ORDER / 2) { + pr_err("Bad debug_guardpage_minorder value: %s\n", buf ?: "(missing)"); return 0; } _debug_guardpage_minorder = res; -- 2.25.1