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* [PATCH] arch: frv: kernel: using strncmp() instead of memcmp()
@ 2013-05-30  3:13 Chen Gang
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From: Chen Gang @ 2013-05-30  3:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dhowells@redhat.com, ak, Geert Uytterhoeven
  Cc: Andrew Morton, Greg KH, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux-Arch


'cmdline' is a NUL terminated string, when its length < 4, memcmp()
will cause memory access out of boundary.

So need use strncmp() instead of memcmp().


Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
---
 arch/frv/kernel/setup.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/frv/kernel/setup.c b/arch/frv/kernel/setup.c
index a513647..622d5ee 100644
--- a/arch/frv/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/frv/kernel/setup.c
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ static void __init parse_cmdline_early(char *cmdline)
 		/* "mem=XXX[kKmM]" sets SDRAM size to <mem>, overriding the value we worked
 		 * out from the SDRAM controller mask register
 		 */
-		if (!memcmp(cmdline, "mem=", 4)) {
+		if (!strncmp(cmdline, "mem=", 4)) {
 			unsigned long long mem_size;
 
 			mem_size = memparse(cmdline + 4, &cmdline);
-- 
1.7.7.6

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