On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 09:25:08PM +0800, YueHaibing wrote: > strncmp() stops comparing when either the end of one of the first two > arguments is reached or when 'n' characters have been compared, whichever > comes first.That means that strncmp(s1, s2, n) is equivalent to > strcmp(s1, s2) if n exceeds the length of s1 or the length of s2. > > This patch avoids that the following warning is reported by smatch: > > drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft_device.c:1458 > fbtft_device_init() error: strncmp() '"list"' too small (5 vs 32) > > Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > v2: fix patch title v2 is worse than v1... v1 is a little long but I wouldn't have complained about it. Please assume that the subject and the commit message are separate things. Take a look how the patch description reads on marc.info: https://marc.info/?l=linux-driver-devel&m=154513957719226&w=2 regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel