Re: [PATCH v4] string.h: Add str_has_prefix() helper function

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 11:16:30AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 10:12:44 -0500
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 23:24:11 +0900
> > Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > > No, because we don't know the length of str.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 	[ str = "h\0[bad memory]" ]
> 
> 
> > > 
> > > I don't know what's the bad memory causing memory fault but anyway
> 
> What I meant by that is if a string is allocated at a end of a page,
> and the next page is marked as not present. A read into that page will
> cause a page fault, and since memcmp() does not stop at the '\0' it
> will read into that not-present memory and trigger a fault, and that
> read wont be in the exception table, and it will then BUG.

Why it doesn't stop at the '\0' if one has it and the other doesn't?
It's not because it's '\0', it's because they are different.  The '\0'
should be in the prev page (otherwise it's already a BUG) so it should
be detected and stopped before going to next page IMHO.


> 
> > > memcpy() should stop at the NUL character first as it's different, no?  
> > 
> > No, that's the difference between memcpy() and strncpy(), memcpy()
> > doesn't care about nul characters. It's copying memory not strings.
> 
> I think we both meant s/cpy/cmp/ ;-)

Sure..  sorry about that.

I know the difference between memcpy() and strcpy().  But this is
comparing so it should stop.

Thanks,
Namhyung