On Wed, 2018-12-19 at 14:16 -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote:
>
> How's this?
>
> [PATCH] tracing: Introduce and use strcmp_const() for hist triggers
>
> Provide a new strcmp_const() macro and make use of it instead of the
> longer and more error-prone strncmp(str, "str", sizeof("str") - 1).
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> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
[]
> @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
>
> #define STR_VAR_LEN_MAX 32 /* must be multiple of sizeof(u64) */
>
> +#define strcmp_const(str, str_const) \
> + strncmp(str, str_const, sizeof(str_const) - 1)
Not good as it's too easy to pass a pointer as str_const
and sizeof(pointer) - 1 isn't likely the string length.
