The early_param handling function could recieve NULL pointer as argument
in case if user didn't enter parameter value.  So we have to be ready for
a such situation and do check for NULL pointer if needed.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
 
 static int __init acpi_parse_apic_instance(char *str)
 {
+       if (!str)
+               return -EINVAL;
 
        acpi_apic_instance = simple_strtoul(str, NULL, 0);