x86: idle process - add checking for NULL early param
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index ba370dc..58325a6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@
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;