[Libosinfo] [PATCH] media: Fix misplaced parenthesis in strncmp use

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Wed May 11 12:44:29 UTC 2016


On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 02:36:17PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Due to a misplaced parenthesis, bootable media detection was doing
> > strncmp(.., .., sizeof(..) != 0)
> > instead of
> > strncmp(.., .., sizeof(..)) != 0
> >
> > This means we were comparing 1 character from BOOTABLE_TAG rather than
> > the full string.
> > ---
> >  osinfo/osinfo_media.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/osinfo/osinfo_media.c b/osinfo/osinfo_media.c
> > index d9fcba6..f7bf120 100644
> > --- a/osinfo/osinfo_media.c
> > +++ b/osinfo/osinfo_media.c
> > @@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ static void on_svd_read(GObject *source,
> >
> >      data->svd.system[MAX_SYSTEM - 1] = 0;
> >
> > -    if (strncmp(BOOTABLE_TAG, data->svd.system, sizeof(BOOTABLE_TAG) != 0)) {
> > +    if (strncmp(BOOTABLE_TAG, data->svd.system, sizeof(BOOTABLE_TAG)) != 0) {
> >          g_set_error(&error,
> >                      OSINFO_MEDIA_ERROR,
> >                      OSINFO_MEDIA_ERROR_NOT_BOOTABLE,
> > --
> > 2.7.4
> >
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> 
> ACK.
> 
> How did you find it out? Were you looking for some specific issue or what?

Ah, I nearly mentioned this in the commit log, I can add it if you want.
I found this while trying to reproduce the -no-undefined build failure
on linux, clang warned about that.

Christophe
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