[PATCH] wmi: use memcmp instead of strncmp to compare GUIDs

From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Date: Sun Nov 28 2010 - 16:55:15 EST


While looking for the duplicates in /sys/class/wmi/, I couldn't find
them. The code that looks for duplicates uses strncmp in a binary GUID,
which may contain zero bytes. The right function is memcmp, which is
also used in another section of wmi code.

It was finding 49142400-C6A3-40FA-BADB-8A2652834100 as a duplicate of
39142400-C6A3-40FA-BADB-8A2652834100. Since the first byte is the fourth
printed, they were found as equal by strncmp.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
index 104b77c..aecd9a9 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
@@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ static bool guid_already_parsed(const char *guid_string)
struct wmi_block *wblock;

list_for_each_entry(wblock, &wmi_block_list, list)
- if (strncmp(wblock->gblock.guid, guid_string, 16) == 0)
+ if (memcmp(wblock->gblock.guid, guid_string, 16) == 0)
return true;

return false;
--
1.7.2.3

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