linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/zswap: change incorrect strncmp use to strcmp

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Date:	Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:43:21 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>
Cc:	Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@...sung.com>,
	Seth Jennings <sjennings@...iantweb.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/zswap: change incorrect strncmp use to strcmp

On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 18:33:11 -0500 Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org> wrote:

> Change the use of strncmp in zswap_pool_find_get() to strcmp.
> 
> The use of strncmp is no longer correct, now that zswap_zpool_type is
> not an array; sizeof() will return the size of a pointer, which isn't
> the right length to compare.

whoops

>  We don't need to use strncmp anyway,
> because the existing params and the passed in params are all guaranteed
> to be null terminated, so strcmp should be used.
> 

Thanks, I'll queue this for 4.4.
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