On Wed, 2018-12-19 at 14:16 -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote: > > How's this? > > [PATCH] tracing: Introduce and use strcmp_const() for hist triggers > > Provide a new strcmp_const() macro and make use of it instead of the > longer and more error-prone strncmp(str, "str", sizeof("str") - 1). [] > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c [] > @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ > > #define STR_VAR_LEN_MAX 32 /* must be multiple of sizeof(u64) */ > > +#define strcmp_const(str, str_const) \ > + strncmp(str, str_const, sizeof(str_const) - 1) Not good as it's too easy to pass a pointer as str_const and sizeof(pointer) - 1 isn't likely the string length.