[alsa-devel] sound: bebop: strncmp length oddity

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Thu Nov 17 12:47:11 CET 2016


On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 23:37:00 +0200,
Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> 15 isn't the length of the string, is that really what's desired?
> 
> linux/next/sound/firewire/bebob/bebop.c
> 
> -----------------------------
> 
> static bool
> check_audiophile_booted(struct fw_unit *unit)
> {
> 	char name[24] = {0};
> 
> 	if (fw_csr_string(unit->directory, CSR_MODEL, name, sizeof(name)) < 0)
> 		return false;
> 
> 	return strncmp(name, "FW Audiophile Bootloader", 15) != 0;
> }

Indeed it looks bogus.  Even "FW...." string is already 24 letters, so
it's over name[] array size.

Sakamoto-san, could you fix it properly?


thanks,

Takashi


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