linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/1] printk: fix parsing of "brl=" option

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Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:57:00 +0200
From:   Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@....org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@....org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/1] printk: fix parsing of "brl=" option

Commit bbeddf52adc1 ("printk: move braille console support into separate
braille.[ch] files") moved the parsing of braille-related options into
_braille_console_setup(), changing the type of variable str from char*
to char**. In this commit, memcmp(str, "brl,", 4) was correctly updated
to memcmp(*str, "brl,", 4) but not memcmp(str, "brl=", 4).

Update the code to make "brl=" option work again and replace memcmp()
with strncmp() to make the compiler able to detect such an issue.

Fixes: bbeddf52adc1 ("printk: move braille console support into separate
braille.[ch] files")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@....org>
---
 kernel/printk/braille.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/braille.c b/kernel/printk/braille.c
index 276762f3a460..d5760c42f042 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/braille.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/braille.c
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@

 char *_braille_console_setup(char **str, char **brl_options)
 {
-	if (!memcmp(*str, "brl,", 4)) {
+	if (!strncmp(*str, "brl,", 4)) {
 		*brl_options = "";
 		*str += 4;
-	} else if (!memcmp(str, "brl=", 4)) {
+	} else if (!strncmp(*str, "brl=", 4)) {
 		*brl_options = *str + 4;
 		*str = strchr(*brl_options, ',');
 		if (!*str)
-- 
2.9.3