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 <hsleste...@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v3:
  - Revise the description.

 kernel/dma/debug.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/dma/debug.c b/kernel/dma/debug.c
index 099002d84f46..0f9e1aba3e1a 100644
--- a/kernel/dma/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/dma/debug.c
@@ -970,7 +970,7 @@ static __init int dma_debug_cmdline(char *str)
        if (!str)
                return -EINVAL;
 
-       if (strncmp(str, "off", 3) == 0) {
+       if (str_has_prefix(str, "off")) {
                pr_info("debugging disabled on kernel command line\n");
                global_disable = true;
        }
-- 
2.20.1

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