Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/7] trace: make filter_parse_regex() provide the length of substring to compare with

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu Feb 05 2015 - 17:46:40 EST


On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 05:07:43PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 21:44:24 +0000
> Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > The point is that by now this strlen() is the only thing for which we
> > NUL-termination of the substring; moving it inside the filter_parse_regex()
> > is an obviously equivalent transformation and it leaves that one strlen() call
> > inside filter_parse_regex() the only place where we still care about NUL.
> >
> > The next commit kills it off completely, at which point we are done with
> > modifying the string at all.
>
> Thanks for the explanation,
>
> Can you add that to the change log. I like to think patches can stand
> on their own, and if they are added to help another patch, it should be
> stated in the change log so someone doing a git blame followed by a git
> show, knows what is going on.

Done and force-pushed. Do you want me to repost the whole thing?
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