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Message-ID: <3357.1193662826@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:00:26 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] fs/afs/vlocation.c: fix off-by-one

Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> wrote:

> This patch fixes an off-by-one error spotted by the Coverity checker.

NAK.

Why do you assume it's a NUL-terminated string?  It's not.  It's a fixed
length character array that gets padded out with NULs.

Look 9 lines further down in the file from the change you made.  You'll notice
it is using memcmp() not strcmp().

David
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