[bugs #8470] boot script parser is not robust

[Marcus Brinkmann]

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[bugs #8470] Full Item Snapshot:

URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=8470>
Project: The GNU Hurd
Submitted by: Marcus Brinkmann
On: Tue 04/06/04 at 14:59

Category:  GNU Mach
Severity:  3 - Ordinary
Priority:  5 - Normal
Item Group:  None
Resolution:  None
Assigned to:  None
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Status:  Open
Reproducibility:  Every Time
Size (loc):  Low <30
Effort:  2.00


Summary:  boot script parser is not robust

Original Submission:  The boot script parser causes the kernel to panic (with 
page fault dereferencing a zero pointer for example) if there is an error in 
the boot script, instead giving a useful error message.

For example, having an extra new line in the ext2fs module line before 
--device-master-port triggers this behaviour.

There may be many more such error types in the parser.












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