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Date:      Mon, 7 Jul 2025 20:16:51 GMT
From:      Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: bc6b526e2b71 - main - inotify: Use memcmp() to compare embedded file names
Message-ID:  <202507072016.567KGpNl006593@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch main has been updated by markj:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=bc6b526e2b71cf7e07806db5bc77926ed5c874f7

commit bc6b526e2b71cf7e07806db5bc77926ed5c874f7
Author:     Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-07-07 19:30:35 +0000
Commit:     Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-07-07 20:16:31 +0000

    inotify: Use memcmp() to compare embedded file names
    
    Otherwise gcc warns that strcmp() will read a byte from a zero-length
    array, though in practice we exclude that case with an explicit length
    check.
    
    Fixes:  f1f230439fa4 ("vfs: Initial revision of inotify")
---
 sys/kern/vfs_inotify.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sys/kern/vfs_inotify.c b/sys/kern/vfs_inotify.c
index 9562350c897f..41e73bb41a49 100644
--- a/sys/kern/vfs_inotify.c
+++ b/sys/kern/vfs_inotify.c
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ inotify_can_coalesce(struct inotify_softc *sc, struct inotify_event *evp)
 	return (prev != NULL && prev->ev.mask == evp->mask &&
 	    prev->ev.wd == evp->wd && prev->ev.cookie == evp->cookie &&
 	    prev->ev.len == evp->len &&
-	    (evp->len == 0 || strcmp(prev->ev.name, evp->name) == 0));
+	    memcmp(prev->ev.name, evp->name, evp->len) == 0);
 }
 
 static void



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