[PATCH v2 5/6] module/dups: Use strcmp() to compare module names
From: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Date: 2026-07-23 08:26:47
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Subsystem:
module support, the rest · Maintainers:
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen, Linus Torvalds
Use strcmp() instead of strlen()+memcmp() to compare module names in kmod_dup_request_lookup(), since all strings are NUL-terminated. Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> --- kernel/module/dups.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/module/dups.c b/kernel/module/dups.c
index 56d659f049c5..80e1638ac34a 100644
--- a/kernel/module/dups.c
+++ b/kernel/module/dups.c@@ -72,11 +72,9 @@ static struct kmod_dup_req *kmod_dup_request_lookup(char *module_name) lockdep_assert_held(&kmod_dup_mutex); list_for_each_entry(kmod_req, &dup_kmod_reqs, list) { - if (strlen(kmod_req->name) == strlen(module_name) && - !memcmp(kmod_req->name, module_name, strlen(module_name))) { + if (!strcmp(kmod_req->name, module_name)) return kmod_req; - } - } + } return NULL; }
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