* Arjun Sreedharan <[email protected]> wrote:
> strcmp() is always expected to return 0 when args are
> same, <0 when arg1 is lesser and >0 otherwise.
> Previously strcmp("a","b") returned 1. Now it gives -1.
I'd also add the following to the changelog:
Until now this bug never triggered, because all uses for strcmp() in
the boot code tested for nonzero:
triton:~/tip> git grep strcmp arch/x86/boot/
arch/x86/boot/boot.h:int strcmp(const char *str1, const char *str2);
arch/x86/boot/edd.c: if (!strcmp(eddarg, "skipmbr") ||
!strcmp(eddarg, "skip")) {
arch/x86/boot/edd.c: else if (!strcmp(eddarg, "off"))
arch/x86/boot/edd.c: else if (!strcmp(eddarg, "on"))
should in the future strcmp() be used in a comparative way in the boot
code, it might have led to (not so subtle) bugs.
Thanks,
Ingo
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