Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] ignore memcmp() overreading in bsearch() callback

From: René Scharfe <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:08:16 +0100

Am 15.01.2013 21:27, schrieb Andreas Schwab:
> René Scharfe <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> +	return '\0' - ent->name[key->len];
> 
> You need to cast to unsigned char first to make it consistent with
> memcmp and strcmp.

Thanks for catching this!

-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] refs: use strncmp() instead of strlen() and memcmp()

Simplify ref_entry_cmp_sslice() by using strncmp() to compare the
length-limited key and a NUL-terminated entry.  While we're at it,
retain the const attribute of the input pointers.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <[email-masked]>
---
 refs.c | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index 541fec2..5129da0 100644
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -333,14 +333,12 @@ struct string_slice {
 
 static int ref_entry_cmp_sslice(const void *key_, const void *ent_)
 {
-	struct string_slice *key = (struct string_slice *)key_;
-	struct ref_entry *ent = *(struct ref_entry **)ent_;
-	int entlen = strlen(ent->name);
-	int cmplen = key->len < entlen ? key->len : entlen;
-	int cmp = memcmp(key->str, ent->name, cmplen);
+	const struct string_slice *key = key_;
+	const struct ref_entry *ent = *(const struct ref_entry * const *)ent_;
+	int cmp = strncmp(key->str, ent->name, key->len);
 	if (cmp)
 		return cmp;
-	return key->len - entlen;
+	return '\0' - (unsigned char)ent->name[key->len];
 }
 
 /*
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