...both give the number of chars in the string without the '\0', as strncmp() wants, but sizeof() is compile-time. Reported-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Vasilyev <pavel@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/sysfs.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c index 240a244..7c3f98b 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ static int param_set_trace_state(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp) { int result = 0; - if (!strncmp(val, "enable", strlen("enable"))) { + if (!strncmp(val, "enable", sizeof("enable") - 1)) { result = acpi_debug_trace(trace_method_name, trace_debug_level, trace_debug_layer, 0); if (result) @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ static int param_set_trace_state(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp) goto exit; } - if (!strncmp(val, "disable", strlen("disable"))) { + if (!strncmp(val, "disable", sizeof("disable") - 1)) { int name = 0; result = acpi_debug_trace((char *)&name, trace_debug_level, trace_debug_layer, 0); -- 1.7.12.rc0