Re: strncmp errors?

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On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 01:28:00PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> Typically, strncmp uses the length of the second
> argument as the maximum comparison length.
> 
> Perhaps these strncmp uses should be modified?
> 
> arch/s390/kernel/vdso.c:	if (strncmp(s, "on", 3) == 0)
> arch/s390/kernel/vdso.c:	else if (strncmp(s, "off", 4) == 0)
> arch/s390/kernel/setup.c:	if (strncmp(str, "hwc", 4) == 0 || strncmp(str, "sclp", 5) == 0)
> arch/s390/kernel/setup.c:	if (strncmp(str, "3215", 5) == 0)
> arch/s390/kernel/setup.c:	if (strncmp(str, "3270", 5) == 0)

Why do you think we have errors in here?
The only thing I can see is that the length parameter is superfluous
and that we could have used strcmp instead.
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