+ mm-debug_page_alloc-fix-null-buf-in-debug_guardpage_minorder_setup.patch added to mm-new branch

The patch titled
     Subject: mm: debug_page_alloc: fix NULL buf in debug_guardpage_minorder_setup
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     mm-debug_page_alloc-fix-null-buf-in-debug_guardpage_minorder_setup.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-debug_page_alloc-fix-null-buf-in-debug_guardpage_minorder_setup.patch

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    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Ye Liu <[email protected]>
Subject: mm: debug_page_alloc: fix NULL buf in debug_guardpage_minorder_setup
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 08:45:55 +0800

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.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Fixes: c0a32fc5a2e4 ("mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging")
Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 mm/debug_page_alloc.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/debug_page_alloc.c~mm-debug_page_alloc-fix-null-buf-in-debug_guardpage_minorder_setup
+++ a/mm/debug_page_alloc.c
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ static int __init debug_guardpage_minord
 {
 	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;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

mm-debug_page_alloc-fix-type-mismatch-for-debug_guardpage_minorder.patch
mm-show_mem-fix-format-string-inconsistencies-and-type-mismatches.patch
mm-debug_page_alloc-fix-null-buf-in-debug_guardpage_minorder_setup.patch