Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] test: fix misplaced braces in strncmp call

[Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>]

Hi Bruce,

On 11/19/2014 10:06 AM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> This patch fixes two occurances where a call to strncmp had the closing
> brace in the wrong place. Changing this form:
> 	if (strncmp(X,Y,sizeof(X) != 0))
> which does a comparison of length 1, to
> 	if (strncmp(X,Y,sizeof(X)) != 0)
> which does the correct length comparison and then compares the result to
> zero in the "if" part, as the author presumably originally intended.
>
> Reported-by: Larry Wang <liang-min.wang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---
>   app/test/test_devargs.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/app/test/test_devargs.c b/app/test/test_devargs.c
> index f0acf8e..dcbdd09 100644
> --- a/app/test/test_devargs.c
> +++ b/app/test/test_devargs.c
> @@ -90,9 +90,9 @@ test_devargs(void)
>   		goto fail;
>   	devargs = TAILQ_FIRST(&devargs_list);
>   	if (strncmp(devargs->virtual.drv_name, "eth_ring1",
> -			sizeof(devargs->virtual.drv_name) != 0))
> +			sizeof(devargs->virtual.drv_name)) != 0)
>   		goto fail;
> -	if (strncmp(devargs->args, "k1=val,k2=val2", sizeof(devargs->args) != 0))
> +	if (strncmp(devargs->args, "k1=val,k2=val2", sizeof(devargs->args)) != 0)
>   		goto fail;
>   	free_devargs_list();
>
>

Nice catch!

Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>