strcmp() is always expected to return 0 when arguments are equal,
negative when its first argument @str1 is less than its second argument
@str2 and a positive value otherwise. Previously strcmp("a", "b")
returned 1. Now it gives -1, as it is supposed to.
Until now this bug never triggered, because all uses for strcmp() in the
boot code tested for nonzero:
triton:~/tip> git grep strcmp arch/x86/boot/
arch/x86/boot/boot.h:int strcmp(const char *str1, const char *str2);
arch/x86/boot/edd.c: if (!strcmp(eddarg, "skipmbr") || !strcmp(eddarg, "skip")) {
arch/x86/boot/edd.c: else if (!strcmp(eddarg, "off"))
arch/x86/boot/edd.c: else if (!strcmp(eddarg, "on"))
should in the future strcmp() be used in a comparative way in the boot
code, it might have led to (not so subtle) bugs.
Signed-off-by: Arjun Sreedharan <arjun024@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426520267-1803-1-git-send-email-arjun024@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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