[PATCH] Fix v9/64-bit strcmp when string ends in multiple zero bytes.

David Miller davem@davemloft.net
Thu May 1 16:05:00 GMT 2014


From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 01:34:01 -0400

> On 04/30/2014 04:00 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> +    {
>> +      int exp_result;
>> +
>> +      for (CHAR val = 0x01; val < 0x10; val++)
> 
> Permute over all char values e.g. [0x1,0xff] or val < 0x100;

I tried that already, just making this change alone causes the test to
take minutes rather then just a few seconds.

I'll see if I can mitigate the cost and still add the extra coverage.

Thanks.



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