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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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