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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] vga_switcheroo: comparing too few characters in
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 05:30:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110107053054.GA9057@p183.telecom.by> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110107051227.GD1717@bicker>

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 08:12:27AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This is a copy-and-paste bug.  We should be comparing 4 characters here
> instead of 3.

> --- a/drivers/gpu/vga/vga_switcheroo.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/vga/vga_switcheroo.c
> @@ -346,11 +346,11 @@ vga_switcheroo_debugfs_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
>  	if (strncmp(usercmd, "DIS", 3) = 0)
>  		client_id = VGA_SWITCHEROO_DIS;
>  
> -	if (strncmp(usercmd, "MIGD", 3) = 0) {
> +	if (strncmp(usercmd, "MIGD", 4) = 0) {
>  		just_mux = true;
>  		client_id = VGA_SWITCHEROO_IGD;
>  	}
> -	if (strncmp(usercmd, "MDIS", 3) = 0) {
> +	if (strncmp(usercmd, "MDIS", 4) = 0) {

How about you NUL-terminate, and use strcmp().

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-07  5:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-07  5:12 [patch] vga_switcheroo: comparing too few characters in strncmp() Dan Carpenter
2011-01-07  5:30 ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2011-01-07  6:05   ` [patch] vga_switcheroo: comparing too few characters in Dan Carpenter

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