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strcmp: fix overflow and possibly signedness error

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Doing the strcmp return value as

	signed char __res = *cs - *ct;

is wrong for two reasons.  The subtraction can overflow because __res
doesn't use a type big enough.  Moreover the compared bytes should be
interpreted as unsigned char as specified by POSIX.

The same problem is fixed in strncmp.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds 2009-11-18 22:31:52 +01:00
parent 6602b355c2
commit a414f01ac2
1 changed files with 14 additions and 6 deletions
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@ -246,13 +246,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strlcat);
#undef strcmp
int strcmp(const char *cs, const char *ct)
{
signed char __res;
unsigned char c1, c2;
while (1) {
if ((__res = *cs - *ct++) != 0 || !*cs++)
c1 = *cs++;
c2 = *ct++;
if (c1 != c2)
return c1 < c2 ? -1 : 1;
if (!c1)
break;
}
return __res;
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(strcmp);
#endif
@ -266,14 +270,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strcmp);
*/
int strncmp(const char *cs, const char *ct, size_t count)
{
signed char __res = 0;
unsigned char c1, c2;
while (count) {
if ((__res = *cs - *ct++) != 0 || !*cs++)
c1 = *cs++;
c2 = *ct++;
if (c1 != c2)
return c1 < c2 ? -1 : 1;
if (!c1)
break;
count--;
}
return __res;
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(strncmp);
#endif