From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>,
Andy Shevchenko <andy@kernel.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] lib/string_helpers: Change returned value of the strreplace()
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:51:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <641b320b.a70a0220.2bb1d.30fc@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230322141206.56347-3-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 04:12:05PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> It's more useful to return the original string with strreplace(),
I found the use of "original" confusing here and in the comments. This
just returns arg 1, yes? i.e. it's not the original (unreplaced) string,
but rather just the string itself.
I agree, though, that's much more useful than a pointer to the end of
the string.
-Kees
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-22 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-22 14:12 [PATCH v1 0/3] lib/string_helpers et al.: Change return value of strreplace() Andy Shevchenko
2023-03-22 14:12 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] jbd2: Avoid printing out the boundary Andy Shevchenko
2023-03-22 16:45 ` kernel test robot
2023-03-23 9:53 ` Jan Kara
2023-03-23 12:27 ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-03-22 14:12 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] lib/string_helpers: Change returned value of the strreplace() Andy Shevchenko
2023-03-22 16:51 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-03-23 12:26 ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-03-23 22:23 ` David Laight
2023-03-22 14:12 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] kobject: Use return value of strreplace() Andy Shevchenko
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