On Fri, 2018-12-21 at 18:13 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rost...@goodmis.org>
>
> A discussion came up in the trace triggers thread about converting a
> bunch of:
>
> strncmp(str, "const", sizeof("const") - 1)
>
> use cases into a helper macro. It started with:
>
> strncmp(str, const, sizeof(const) - 1)
>
> But then Joe Perches mentioned that if a const is not used, the
> sizeof() will be the size of a pointer, which can be bad. And that
> gcc will optimize strlen("const") into "sizeof("const") - 1".
>
> Thinking about this more, a quick grep in the kernel tree found several
> (thousands!) of cases that use this construct. A quick grep also
> revealed that there's probably several bugs in that use case. Some are
> that people forgot the "- 1" (which I found) and others could be that
> the constant for the sizeof is different than the constant (although, I
> haven't found any of those, but I also didn't look hard).
>
> I figured the best thing to do is to create a helper macro and place it
> into include/linux/string.h. And go around and fix all the open coded
> versions of it later.
>
> Note, gcc appears to optimize this when we make it into an always_inline
> static function, which removes a lot of issues that a macro produces.
>
> Link:
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e3e754f2bd18e56eaa8baf79bee619316ebf4cfc.1545161087.git.tom.zanu...@linux.intel.com
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181219211615.2298e...@gandalf.local.home
> Link:
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wg_sr-uec1ggmkzpypouyanl5cmx4r7ceuav4qmf5j...@mail.gmail.com
>
> Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanu...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
> Suggestions-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
> Suggestions-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com>
> Suggestions-by: Andreas Schwab <sch...@linux-m68k.org>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rost...@goodmis.org>
> ---
>
> Changes since v2:
>
> - Rename the helper function to str_has_prefix()
> (Linus Torvalds and Joe Perches)
>
> - Use a static inline, as that appears to still optimize correctly
> (Andreas Schwab)
>
> include/linux/string.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
> index 27d0482e5e05..a37859d91b57 100644
> --- a/include/linux/string.h
> +++ b/include/linux/string.h
> @@ -456,4 +456,24 @@ static inline void memcpy_and_pad(void *dest, size_t
> dest_len,
> memcpy(dest, src, dest_len);
> }
>
> +/**
> + * str_has_prefix - Test if a string has a given prefix
> + * @str: The string to test
> + * @prefix: The string to see if @str starts with
> + *
> + * A common way to test a prefix of a string is to do:
> + * strncmp(str, prefix, sizeof(prefix) - 1)
> + *
> + * But this can lead to bugs due to typos, or if prefix is a pointer
> + * and not a constant. Instead use str_has_prefix().
> + *
> + * Returns: 0 if @str does not start with @prefix
> + strlen(@prefix) if @str does start with @prefix
> + */
> +static __always_inline int str_has_prefix(const char *str, const char
> *prefix)
> +{
> + int len = strlen(prefix);
> + return strncmp(str, prefix, len) == 0 ? len : 0;
> +}
I believe this should be bool.
I don't find a use for non-zero assigned len value in the kernel
for strncmp and I believe the function should simply be:
static inline bool str_has_prefix(const char *str, const char prefix[])
{
return !strncmp(str, prefix, strlen(prefix));
}
It's hard to believe __always_inline vs inline matters
for any single line function.
