netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/8] textsearch: fix Boyer-Moore algorithm for case insensitive searching

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:27:18 +0200
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@...il.com>
CC:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] textsearch: fix Boyer-Moore algorithm for case insensitive
 searching

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Joonwoo Park wrote:
>> 2008/6/21 Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>:
>>>> +static void compute_prefix_tbl(struct ts_bm *bm, u8 icase)
>>>>  {
>>>>        int i, j, g;
>>>>          for (i = 0; i < ASIZE; i++)
>>>>                bm->bad_shift[i] = bm->patlen;
>>>> -       for (i = 0; i < bm->patlen - 1; i++)
>>>> +       for (i = 0; i < bm->patlen - 1; i++) {
>>>>                bm->bad_shift[bm->pattern[i]] = bm->patlen - 1 - i;
>>>> +               if (icase)
>>>> +                       bm->bad_shift[tolower(bm->pattern[i])]
>>>> +                           = bm->patlen - 1 - i;
>>>> +       }
>>> You use toupper() above and tolower() here, is that correct?
>>>
>>
>> It should be, bm->pattern's characters are all upper case since It was
>> altered before.
>> So we should use toupper() for target string character to compare.
>> And to ignore case, we should prepare one more bad_shift array
>> calculation, opposite tolower() should be used for it.
> 
> OK thanks. I'll wait for an ACK from Thomas before applying
> them though.

This is rather confusing. Why not set both the pattern and the bad_shift
to lower or upper case?

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