+ lib-parser-fix-match_wildcard-to-correctly-handle-trailing-stars.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

+ lib-parser-fix-match_wildcard-to-correctly-handle-trailing-stars.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: lib: parser: fix match_wildcard to correctly handle trailing stars
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     lib-parser-fix-match_wildcard-to-correctly-handle-trailing-stars.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/lib-parser-fix-match_wildcard-to-correctly-handle-trailing-stars.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Inseob Kim <inseob@google.com>
Subject: lib: parser: fix match_wildcard to correctly handle trailing stars
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:06:04 +0900

This fixes a bug in match_wildcard that incorrectly handles trailing
asterisks.  For example, `match_wildcard("abc**", "abc")` must return
true, but it returns false.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260326020630.4139520-1-inseob@google.com
Signed-off-by: Inseob Kim <inseob@google.com>
Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 lib/parser.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/lib/parser.c~lib-parser-fix-match_wildcard-to-correctly-handle-trailing-stars
+++ a/lib/parser.c
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ bool match_wildcard(const char *pattern,
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (*p == '*')
+	while (*p == '*')
 		++p;
 	return !*p;
 }
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from inseob@google.com are

lib-parser-fix-match_wildcard-to-correctly-handle-trailing-stars.patch