linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: fix early command-line parsing when matching at end

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Message-ID: <20160106181411.GD20321@pd.tnic>
Date:	Wed, 6 Jan 2016 19:14:11 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>
Cc:	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, hpa@...or.com, fenghua.yu@...el.com,
	yu-cheng.yu@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: fix early command-line parsing when matching at
 end

On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 09:57:08AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> So, after the third patch, the strlen() goes away any way you do this.
> The code ends up looking the same (the while() check is against the
> max-length variable alone).

True story.

> I'm happy to rewrite this to have a different intermediate form and
> repost the thing, but the end result will be the same.

Yeah, no need.

Thanks.

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    Boris.

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