Re: [PATCH v2 02/10] gcov: Replace strncmp with str_has_prefix

[Peter Oberparleiter]

On 02.08.2019 03:46, Chuhong Yuan wrote:
> strncmp(str, const, len) is error-prone because len
> is easy to have typo.
> The example is the hard-coded len has counting error
> or sizeof(const) forgets - 1.
> So we prefer using newly introduced str_has_prefix
> to substitute such strncmp.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks sane!

Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Changes in v2:
>   - Revise the description.
> 
>  kernel/gcov/fs.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/gcov/fs.c b/kernel/gcov/fs.c
> index e5eb5ea7ea59..67296c1768b4 100644
> --- a/kernel/gcov/fs.c
> +++ b/kernel/gcov/fs.c
> @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ static char *get_link_target(const char *filename, const struct gcov_link *ext)
>   */
>  static const char *deskew(const char *basename)
>  {
> -	if (strncmp(basename, SKEW_PREFIX, sizeof(SKEW_PREFIX) - 1) == 0)
> +	if (str_has_prefix(basename, SKEW_PREFIX))
>  		return basename + sizeof(SKEW_PREFIX) - 1;
>  	return basename;
>  }
> 


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Peter Oberparleiter
Linux on Z Development - IBM Germany