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cmd: bcb: Use strcmp() instead of strncmp() for string literals
authorEugeniu Rosca <roscaeugeniu@gmail.com>
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 21:26:13 +0000 (23:26 +0200)
committerTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Wed, 24 Jul 2019 17:16:29 +0000 (13:16 -0400)
commit739168cfdc18690273e24a34f0360a61e6658424
tree643e31ffe091db9ebc9dae77fe8e5796e5782586
parente47b73b821f7f6078c0d11b453545507e25727cc
cmd: bcb: Use strcmp() instead of strncmp() for string literals

Quote from https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1104244/#2210814:

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strncmp() is chosen for the sake of paranoid/defensive programming.
Indeed, strncmp() is not really needed when comparing a variable
with a string literal. We expect strcmp() to behave safely even if the
string variable is not NUL-terminated.

In the same scenario, Linux v5.2-rc7 uses both strcmp() and strncmp(),
but the frequency of strcmp() is higher:

$ git --version
git version 2.22.0
$ (Linux 5.2-rc7) git grep -En 'strncmp\([^"]*"[[:alnum:]]+"' | wc -l
1066
$ (Linux 5.2-rc7) git grep -En 'strcmp\([^"]*"[[:alnum:]]+"' | wc -l
1968

A quick "strcmp vs strncmp" object size test shows that strcmp()
generates smaller memory footprint (gcc-8, x86_64):

$ (U-Boot) size cmd/bcb-strncmp.o cmd/bcb-strcmp.o
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   3373     400    2048    5821    16bd cmd/bcb-strncmp.o
   3314     400    2048    5762    1682 cmd/bcb-strcmp.o

So, overall, I agree to use strcmp() whenever variables are compared
with string literals.
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Fixes: db7b7a05b267 ("cmd: Add 'bcb' command to read/modify/write BCB fields")
Reported-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@de.adit-jv.com>
Reviewed-by: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Igor Opaniuk <igor.opaniuk@gmail.com>
cmd/bcb.c