powerpc: Fix handling of strncmp with zero len
authorJeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:55:51 +0000 (10:55 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 5 Jul 2010 18:08:42 +0000 (11:08 -0700)
commitae7aff994d0934d86a3278a65889f34629c778a7
tree084f951dc181673cd9d29008c36a2a70a45ea54c
parent88102a584bf833892493a514430bcebd53d8f017
powerpc: Fix handling of strncmp with zero len

commit 637a99022fb119b90fb281715d13172f0394fc12 upstream.

Commit 0119536c, which added the assembly version of strncmp to
powerpc, mentions that it adds two instructions to the version from
boot/string.S to allow it to handle len=0. Unfortunately, it doesn't
always return 0 when that is the case. The length is passed in r5, but
the return value is passed back in r3. In certain cases, this will
happen to work. Otherwise it will pass back the address of the first
string as the return value.

This patch lifts the len <= 0 handling code from memcpy to handle that
case.

Reported by: Christian_Sellars@symantec.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/powerpc/lib/string.S