linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] lib/string.c: implement a basic bcmp

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Date:   Wed, 13 Mar 2019 14:40:13 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@...aro.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        James Y Knight <jyknight@...gle.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] lib/string.c: implement a basic bcmp

On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:17:15 -0700
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com> wrote:

> +#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_BCMP
> +/**
> + * bcmp - Like memcmp but a non-zero return code simply indicates a non-match.
> + * @cs: One area of memory.
> + * @ct: Another area of memory.
> + * @count: The size of the areas.
> + */
> +#undef bcmp
> +int bcmp(const void *cs, const void *ct, size_t count)
> +{
> +	return memcmp(cs, ct, count);

This is confusing where the comment says "like memcmp but .." and then
just returns memcmp() unmodified. If anything, I would expect to see

	return !!memcmp(cs, ct, conut);

or have a better comment explaining why its the same.

-- Steve

> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(bcmp);
> +#endif
> +