linux-kernel - [2/5] sched: Fix string comparison in /proc/sched

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Message-Id: <20101119213231.035284079@clark.site>
Date:	Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:30:47 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: [2/5] sched: Fix string comparison in /proc/sched_features

2.6.27-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>

commit 7740191cd909b75d75685fb08a5d1f54b8a9d28b upstream.

Fix incorrect handling of the following case:

 INTERACTIVE
 INTERACTIVE_SOMETHING_ELSE

The comparison only checks up to each element's length.

Changelog since v1:
 - Embellish using some Rostedtisms.
  [ mingo:                 ^^ == smaller and cleaner ]

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100913214700.GB16118@...stal>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 kernel/sched.c |    7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -744,7 +744,7 @@ sched_feat_write(struct file *filp, cons
 		size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos)
 {
 	char buf[64];
-	char *cmp = buf;
+	char *cmp;
 	int neg = 0;
 	int i;
 
@@ -755,6 +755,7 @@ sched_feat_write(struct file *filp, cons
 		return -EFAULT;
 
 	buf[cnt] = 0;
+	cmp = strstrip(buf);
 
 	if (strncmp(buf, "NO_", 3) == 0) {
 		neg = 1;
@@ -762,9 +763,7 @@ sched_feat_write(struct file *filp, cons
 	}
 
 	for (i = 0; sched_feat_names[i]; i++) {
-		int len = strlen(sched_feat_names[i]);
-
-		if (strncmp(cmp, sched_feat_names[i], len) == 0) {
+		if (strcmp(cmp, sched_feat_names[i]) == 0) {
 			if (neg)
 				sysctl_sched_features &= ~(1UL << i);
 			else


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