From: Dimitris Papastamos <dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: core: No need to use strncmp()
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:59:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130731115929.GA26438@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130731110147.GI9858@sirena.org.uk>
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:01:47PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:48:14AM +0100, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:07:26AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 09:44:13AM +0100, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
> > > > Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
>
> > > Why?
>
> > Hm, strncmp() suggests that we might not care about the entire string.
> > Although trivial, I thought strcmp() is clearer in this context.
>
> One of the reasons we use strncmp() here is to avoid going beyond the
> end of the fixed size buffer.
Right, surely though the kcontrol names are always null terminated?
In any case, looks more safe to strncmp().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-31 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-31 8:44 [PATCH] ASoC: core: No need to use strncmp() Dimitris Papastamos
2013-07-31 9:07 ` Mark Brown
2013-07-31 9:48 ` Dimitris Papastamos
2013-07-31 11:01 ` Mark Brown
2013-07-31 11:59 ` Dimitris Papastamos [this message]
2013-07-31 13:23 ` Mark Brown
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