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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_EBD_ONLY filter matching
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:08:02 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B258FF2.3070600@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1260544458.2146.362.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>

>>  static int regex_match_end(char *str, struct regex *r, int len)
>>  {
>> -	char *ptr = strstr(str, r->pattern);
>> +	int strlen = len - 1;
>>  
>> -	if (ptr && (ptr[r->len] == 0))
>> +	if (strlen >= r->len &&
>> +	    !memcmp(str + strlen - r->len, r->pattern, r->len))
> 
> Please use memcmp() == 0, I've seen too many bugs with !*cmp as well as
> with *cmp, because humans tend to think instinctively when reading this
> that ! is not a match. With "== 0" we think that "==" is a match and
>  "!=" is a miss.
> 

Though I sometimes don't care much about this, I do
think memcmp() == 0 is better.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-14  1:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-11  9:58 [PATCH 1/4] ftrace: Fix MATCH_END_ONLY filter matching Li Zefan
2009-12-11  9:59 ` [PATCH 2/4] tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_FULL filter matching for PTR_STRING Li Zefan
2009-12-11 12:07   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-12-14  1:40     ` Li Zefan
2009-12-14 12:21       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-12-14 12:23       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-12-11  9:59 ` [PATCH 3/4] tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_FRONT_ONLY filter matching Li Zefan
2009-12-11 12:02   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-12-14  1:43     ` Li Zefan
2009-12-14 12:22       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-12-11  9:59 ` [PATCH 4/4] tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_EBD_ONLY " Li Zefan
2009-12-11 15:14   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-12-14  1:08     ` Li Zefan [this message]
2009-12-11 12:10 ` [PATCH 1/4] ftrace: Fix MATCH_END_ONLY " Frederic Weisbecker
2009-12-11 12:20 ` Frederic Riss
2009-12-11 12:27   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-12-11 15:10     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-12-11 17:46       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-12-14  1:04         ` Li Zefan

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