linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 225/346] printk: fix parsing of "brl=" option

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Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2016 00:14:20 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Joe Perches" <joe@...ches.com>,
        "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Nicolas Iooss" <nicolas.iooss_linux@....org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 225/346] printk: fix parsing of "brl=" option

3.16.39-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@....org>

commit ae6c33ba6e37eea3012fe2640b22400ef3f2d0f3 upstream.

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")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160823165700.28952-1-nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@....org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 kernel/printk/braille.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- 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)