[PATCH v8 10/13] lib/bootconfig: use size_t for strlen result in xbc_node_match_prefix()

Josh Law
2026-03-18T15:59:34Z

lib/bootconfig.c:198:19: warning: conversion from 'size_t' to 'int'
may change value [-Wconversion]
lib/bootconfig.c:200:33: warning: conversion to '__kernel_size_t'
from 'int' may change the sign of the result [-Wsign-conversion]

strlen() returns size_t but the result was stored in an int. The value
is then passed back to strncmp() which expects size_t, causing a second
sign-conversion warning on the round-trip. Use size_t throughout to
match the API types.

Signed-off-by: Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org>
---
lib/bootconfig.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/bootconfig.c b/lib/bootconfig.c
index dd639046912c..3c5b6ad32a54 100644
--- a/lib/bootconfig.c
+++ b/lib/bootconfig.c
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ static bool __init
xbc_node_match_prefix(struct xbc_node *node, const char **prefix)
{
const char *p = xbc_node_get_data(node);
- int len = strlen(p);
+ size_t len = strlen(p);

if (strncmp(*prefix, p, len))
return false;
--
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