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From: tip-bot for Arjun Sreedharan <tipbot@zytor.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: hpa@zytor.com, arjun024@gmail.com, mingo@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bp@suse.de, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: [tip:x86/boot] x86/boot: Standardize strcmp()
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 05:23:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-1c1d046be692493d00a4831d4fbc266745008e09@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426520267-1803-1-git-send-email-arjun024@gmail.com>

Commit-ID:  1c1d046be692493d00a4831d4fbc266745008e09
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/1c1d046be692493d00a4831d4fbc266745008e09
Author:     Arjun Sreedharan <arjun024@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 21:07:47 +0530
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:24:12 +0100

x86/boot: Standardize strcmp()

strcmp() is always expected to return 0 when arguments are equal,
negative when its first argument @str1 is less than its second argument
@str2 and a positive value otherwise. Previously strcmp("a", "b")
returned 1. Now it gives -1, as it is supposed to.

Until now this bug never triggered, because all uses for strcmp() in the
boot code tested for nonzero:

  triton:~/tip> git grep strcmp arch/x86/boot/
  arch/x86/boot/boot.h:int strcmp(const char *str1, const char *str2);
  arch/x86/boot/edd.c:            if (!strcmp(eddarg, "skipmbr") || !strcmp(eddarg, "skip")) {
  arch/x86/boot/edd.c:            else if (!strcmp(eddarg, "off"))
  arch/x86/boot/edd.c:            else if (!strcmp(eddarg, "on"))

should in the future strcmp() be used in a comparative way in the boot
code, it might have led to (not so subtle) bugs.

Signed-off-by: Arjun Sreedharan <arjun024@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426520267-1803-1-git-send-email-arjun024@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/boot/string.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/string.c b/arch/x86/boot/string.c
index 493f3fd..318b846 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/string.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/string.c
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ int strcmp(const char *str1, const char *str2)
 	int delta = 0;
 
 	while (*s1 || *s2) {
-		delta = *s2 - *s1;
+		delta = *s1 - *s2;
 		if (delta)
 			return delta;
 		s1++;

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-23 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-16 15:37 [PATCH] x86,boot: standardize strcmp() Arjun Sreedharan
2015-03-16 18:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-03-17  7:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-17 14:13   ` Arjun Sreedharan
2015-03-18  1:36     ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2015-03-18 18:10       ` Arjun Sreedharan
2015-03-18 18:37       ` Arjun Sreedharan
2015-03-19 17:34     ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-03-20 11:42       ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2015-03-17 14:28   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-03-23 12:23 ` tip-bot for Arjun Sreedharan [this message]

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