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init: carefully handle loglevel option on kernel cmdline. 

When a malformed loglevel value (for example "${abc}") is passed on the
kernel cmdline, the loglevel itself is being set to 0.

That then suppresses all following messages, including all the errors
and crashes caused by other malformed cmdline options.  This could make
debugging process quite tricky.

This patch leaves the previous value of loglevel if the new value is
incorrect and reports an error code in this case.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@sysgo.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexander Sverdlin 2011-09-21 09:51:40 +02:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 32ef43848f
commit 808bf29b91
1 changed files with 13 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -209,8 +209,19 @@ early_param("quiet", quiet_kernel);
static int __init loglevel(char *str)
{
get_option(&str, &console_loglevel);
return 0;
int newlevel;
/*
* Only update loglevel value when a correct setting was passed,
* to prevent blind crashes (when loglevel being set to 0) that
* are quite hard to debug
*/
if (get_option(&str, &newlevel)) {
console_loglevel = newlevel;
return 0;
}
return -EINVAL;
}
early_param("loglevel", loglevel);