[ovs-dev] [PATCH] bridge: Modify equal_pathnames function
Ben Pfaff
blp at nicira.com
Wed Jan 23 23:13:54 UTC 2013
I applied it to master, thanks.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 02:00:14PM -0800, Pavithra Ramesh wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> Thanks for taking a look. This patch looks good.
>
> Thanks,
> Pavithra
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben Pfaff" <blp at nicira.com>
> To: "Pavithra Ramesh" <paramesh at vmware.com>
> Cc: dev at openvswitch.org
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 1:29:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] bridge: Modify equal_pathnames function
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 01:22:03PM -0800, Pavithra Ramesh wrote:
> > Modify equal_pathnames to return true when one string is
> > substring of the other(when a value smaller than SIZE_MAX
> > is supplied as stop_len)
>
> I think this change is correct only when b_stoplen == strlen(b).
> That's the case for the current caller but it's supposed to be more
> general.
>
> How about this:
>
> diff --git a/vswitchd/bridge.c b/vswitchd/bridge.c
> index 82c3bff..dd3099f 100644
> --- a/vswitchd/bridge.c
> +++ b/vswitchd/bridge.c
> @@ -2740,8 +2740,12 @@ static bool
> equal_pathnames(const char *a, const char *b, size_t b_stoplen)
> {
> const char *b_start = b;
> - while (b - b_start < b_stoplen && *a == *b) {
> - if (*a == '/') {
> + for (;;) {
> + if (b - b_start >= b_stoplen) {
> + return true;
> + } else if (*a != *b) {
> + return false;
> + } else if (*a == '/') {
> a += strspn(a, "/");
> b += strspn(b, "/");
> } else if (*a == '\0') {
> @@ -2751,7 +2755,6 @@ equal_pathnames(const char *a, const char *b, size_t b_stoplen)
> b++;
> }
> }
> - return false;
> }
>
> static void
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