[PATCH v2] lib: sbi: Fix bug in strncmp function

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Thu Aug 5 01:39:55 PDT 2021


Hi Dong,

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 12:23 AM Dong Du <Dd_nirvana at sjtu.edu.cn> wrote:
>
> No need to compare characters when the count turns to 0.
> Fix the issue in sbi_strncmp.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dong Du <Dd_nirvana at sjtu.edu.cn>
> ---
>  lib/sbi/sbi_string.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/sbi/sbi_string.c b/lib/sbi/sbi_string.c
> index 7805ba4..c87bce9 100644
> --- a/lib/sbi/sbi_string.c
> +++ b/lib/sbi/sbi_string.c
> @@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ int sbi_strncmp(const char *a, const char *b, size_t count)
>         for (; count > 0 && *a == *b && *a != '\0'; a++, b++, count--)
>                 ;
>
> +       /* No difference till the end */
> +       if (!count)
> +               return 0;
> +
>         return *a - *b;
>  }
>

Your original patch is also needed: "strncmp should return 0 when the
count is 0"

Regards,
Bin



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