strncmp(str, const, len) is error-prone because len
is easy to have typo.
The example is the hard-coded len has counting error
or sizeof(const) forgets - 1.
So we prefer using newly introduced str_has_prefix()
to substitute such strncmp to make code better.
Signed-off-by: Chuhong Yuan <[email protected]>
---
Changes in v3:
- Revise the description.
kernel/module.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 5933395af9a0..7defa2a4a701 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2251,7 +2251,7 @@ static int simplify_symbols(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info)
switch (sym[i].st_shndx) {
case SHN_COMMON:
/* Ignore common symbols */
- if (!strncmp(name, "__gnu_lto", 9))
+ if (str_has_prefix(name, "__gnu_lto"))
break;
/* We compiled with -fno-common. These are not
--
2.20.1