Re: [PATCH] x86,boot: standardize strcmp()

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Mar 16 2015 - 14:18:36 EST


On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 09:07:47PM +0530, Arjun Sreedharan wrote:
> strcmp() is always expected to return 0 when args are
> same, <0 when arg1 is lesser and >0 otherwise.
> Previously strcmp("a","b") returned 1. Now it gives -1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arjun Sreedharan <arjun024@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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++;
> --

Applied, thanks.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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