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* [PATCH RESEND] lib: parser: Fix match_wildcard to correctly handle trailing stars
@ 2025-08-28  3:34 Inseob Kim
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From: Inseob Kim @ 2025-08-28  3:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: Inseob Kim

This fixes a bug of match_wildcard that incorrectly handles trailing
asterisks. For example, `match_wildcard("abc**", "abc")` must return
true, but it returns false.

Signed-off-by: Inseob Kim <inseob@google.com>
---
 lib/parser.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/parser.c b/lib/parser.c
index 73e8f8e5be73..62da0ac0d438 100644
--- a/lib/parser.c
+++ b/lib/parser.c
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ bool match_wildcard(const char *pattern, const char *str)
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (*p == '*')
+	while (*p == '*')
 		++p;
 	return !*p;
 }
-- 
2.51.0.268.g9569e192d0-goog


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