cmd: bcb: Use strcmp() instead of strncmp() for string literals
authorEugeniu Rosca <roscaeugeniu@gmail.com>
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 21:26:13 +0000 (23:26 +0200)
committerTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Wed, 24 Jul 2019 17:16:29 +0000 (13:16 -0400)
Quote from https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1104244/#2210814:

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strncmp() is chosen for the sake of paranoid/defensive programming.
Indeed, strncmp() is not really needed when comparing a variable
with a string literal. We expect strcmp() to behave safely even if the
string variable is not NUL-terminated.

In the same scenario, Linux v5.2-rc7 uses both strcmp() and strncmp(),
but the frequency of strcmp() is higher:

$ git --version
git version 2.22.0
$ (Linux 5.2-rc7) git grep -En 'strncmp\([^"]*"[[:alnum:]]+"' | wc -l
1066
$ (Linux 5.2-rc7) git grep -En 'strcmp\([^"]*"[[:alnum:]]+"' | wc -l
1968

A quick "strcmp vs strncmp" object size test shows that strcmp()
generates smaller memory footprint (gcc-8, x86_64):

$ (U-Boot) size cmd/bcb-strncmp.o cmd/bcb-strcmp.o
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   3373     400    2048    5821    16bd cmd/bcb-strncmp.o
   3314     400    2048    5762    1682 cmd/bcb-strcmp.o

So, overall, I agree to use strcmp() whenever variables are compared
with string literals.
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Fixes: db7b7a05b267 ("cmd: Add 'bcb' command to read/modify/write BCB fields")
Reported-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@de.adit-jv.com>
Reviewed-by: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Igor Opaniuk <igor.opaniuk@gmail.com>
cmd/bcb.c

index 3b1c743..fa9fdee 100644 (file)
--- a/cmd/bcb.c
+++ b/cmd/bcb.c
@@ -24,17 +24,17 @@ static struct bootloader_message bcb = { { 0 } };
 
 static int bcb_cmd_get(char *cmd)
 {
-       if (!strncmp(cmd, "load", sizeof("load")))
+       if (!strcmp(cmd, "load"))
                return BCB_CMD_LOAD;
-       if (!strncmp(cmd, "set", sizeof("set")))
+       if (!strcmp(cmd, "set"))
                return BCB_CMD_FIELD_SET;
-       if (!strncmp(cmd, "clear", sizeof("clear")))
+       if (!strcmp(cmd, "clear"))
                return BCB_CMD_FIELD_CLEAR;
-       if (!strncmp(cmd, "test", sizeof("test")))
+       if (!strcmp(cmd, "test"))
                return BCB_CMD_FIELD_TEST;
-       if (!strncmp(cmd, "store", sizeof("store")))
+       if (!strcmp(cmd, "store"))
                return BCB_CMD_STORE;
-       if (!strncmp(cmd, "dump", sizeof("dump")))
+       if (!strcmp(cmd, "dump"))
                return BCB_CMD_FIELD_DUMP;
        else
                return -1;
@@ -85,19 +85,19 @@ err:
 
 static int bcb_field_get(char *name, char **field, int *size)
 {
-       if (!strncmp(name, "command", sizeof("command"))) {
+       if (!strcmp(name, "command")) {
                *field = bcb.command;
                *size = sizeof(bcb.command);
-       } else if (!strncmp(name, "status", sizeof("status"))) {
+       } else if (!strcmp(name, "status")) {
                *field = bcb.status;
                *size = sizeof(bcb.status);
-       } else if (!strncmp(name, "recovery", sizeof("recovery"))) {
+       } else if (!strcmp(name, "recovery")) {
                *field = bcb.recovery;
                *size = sizeof(bcb.recovery);
-       } else if (!strncmp(name, "stage", sizeof("stage"))) {
+       } else if (!strcmp(name, "stage")) {
                *field = bcb.stage;
                *size = sizeof(bcb.stage);
-       } else if (!strncmp(name, "reserved", sizeof("reserved"))) {
+       } else if (!strcmp(name, "reserved")) {
                *field = bcb.reserved;
                *size = sizeof(bcb.reserved);
        } else {