As an identical match is wanted in this case, strcmp can be used instead.
The semantic match that lead to detecting this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@
expression foo;
constant char *abc;
@@
*strncmp(foo, abc, sizeof(abc))
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
rootdir = (struct qnx4_inode_entry *) (bh->b_data + i * QNX4_DIR_ENTRY_SIZE);
if (rootdir->di_fname != NULL) {
QNX4DEBUG((KERN_INFO "rootdir entry found : [%s]\n", rootdir->di_fname));
- if (!strncmp(rootdir->di_fname, QNX4_BMNAME, sizeof QNX4_BMNAME)) {
+ if (!strcmp(rootdir->di_fname,
+ QNX4_BMNAME)) {
found = 1;
qnx4_sb(sb)->BitMap = kmalloc( sizeof( struct qnx4_inode_entry ), GFP_KERNEL );
if (!qnx4_sb(sb)->BitMap) {