On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 10:40:08AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 13:40:17 +0000
> Russell King - ARM Linux <li...@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 02:03:45PM +0100, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> > > +static inline bool arch_syscall_match_sym_name(const char *sym,
> > > + const char *name)
> > > +{
> > > + /* Skip sys_ */
> > > + sym += 4;
> > > + name += 4;
> >
> > Is this really safe? What guarantees that we can wind forward four
> > bytes here? If it's always safe, it needs a better comment than just
> > two words.
>
> I believe it is, but a comment would do well.
I ended up just getting rid of the skip and comparing the whole name
instead. I've sent a v2.
