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kernfs: Fix kernfs_name_compare

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Returning a difference from a comparison functions is usually wrong
(see acbbe6fbb240 "kcmp: fix standard comparison bug" for the long
story). Here there is the additional twist that if the void pointers
ns and kn->ns happen to differ by a multiple of 2^32,
kernfs_name_compare returns 0, falsely reporting a match to the
caller.

Technically 'hash - kn->hash' is ok since the hashes are restricted to
31 bits, but it's better to avoid that subtlety.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes 2014-12-05 23:41:33 +01:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent b7392d2247
commit 72392ed0eb
1 changed files with 8 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -201,10 +201,14 @@ static unsigned int kernfs_name_hash(const char *name, const void *ns)
static int kernfs_name_compare(unsigned int hash, const char *name,
const void *ns, const struct kernfs_node *kn)
{
if (hash != kn->hash)
return hash - kn->hash;
if (ns != kn->ns)
return ns - kn->ns;
if (hash < kn->hash)
return -1;
if (hash > kn->hash)
return 1;
if (ns < kn->ns)
return -1;
if (ns > kn->ns)
return 1;
return strcmp(name, kn->name);
}