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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] fs/afs/vlocation.c: fix off-by-one
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:00:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3357.1193662826@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071027141957.GY30533@stusta.de>

Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:

> This patch fixes an off-by-one error spotted by the Coverity checker.

NAK.

Why do you assume it's a NUL-terminated string?  It's not.  It's a fixed
length character array that gets padded out with NULs.

Look 9 lines further down in the file from the change you made.  You'll notice
it is using memcmp() not strcmp().

David

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-29 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-27 14:19 [2.6 patch] fs/afs/vlocation.c: fix off-by-one Adrian Bunk
2007-10-29 13:00 ` David Howells [this message]
2007-10-29 15:24   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-29 15:30     ` David Howells

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