Re: [PATCH 1/1] nvdimm: use the right length of "pmem"

From: Nicolas Iooss
Date: Sun Oct 30 2016 - 12:58:08 EST


On 30/10/16 16:50, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 4:28 AM, Nicolas Iooss
> <nicolas.iooss_linux@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In order to test that the name of a resource begins with "pmem", call
>> strncmp() with 4 as length instead of 3 to match the whole prefix.
>>
>> Fixes: 16660eaea0cc ("libnvdimm, namespace: update label implementation
>> for multi-pmem")
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@xxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks, although I would not call this out as a fix since the length
> parameter could be 1 and still do the right thing. I.e. we're
> distinguishing "blk" from "pmem" resources. I'll add this for 4.10 as
> a cleanup.

All right. Thanks for your quick reply!

Nicolas