Anything coming from sysfs has a newline at the end. Cut it off before comparing the strings.
Fixes: 20ab67608a39 ("power: add environment capability probing") Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.bura...@intel.com> Acked-by: David Hunt <david.h...@intel.com> --- lib/librte_power/power_common.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/librte_power/power_common.c b/lib/librte_power/power_common.c index 59023d986b..22b016ca9d 100644 --- a/lib/librte_power/power_common.c +++ b/lib/librte_power/power_common.c @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ int cpufreq_check_scaling_driver(const char *driver_name) { unsigned int lcore_id = 0; /* always check core 0 */ + size_t end_idx; char fullpath[PATH_MAX]; char readbuf[PATH_MAX]; char *s; @@ -39,6 +40,13 @@ cpufreq_check_scaling_driver(const char *driver_name) if (s == NULL) return 0; + /* when read from sysfs, driver name has an extra newline at the end */ + end_idx = strnlen(readbuf, sizeof(readbuf)); + /* prevent underflow if len is zero */ + if (end_idx > 0) + end_idx--; + readbuf[end_idx] = '\0'; + /* does the driver name match? */ if (strncmp(readbuf, driver_name, sizeof(readbuf)) != 0) return 0; -- 2.17.1