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    tools lib traceevent: Fix missing equality check for strcmp · f32c2877
    Rikard Falkeborn authored
    There was a missing comparison with 0 when checking if type is "s64" or
    "u64". Therefore, the body of the if-statement was entered if "type" was
    "u64" or not "s64", which made the first strcmp() redundant since if
    type is "u64", it's not "s64".
    
    If type is "s64", the body of the if-statement is not entered but since
    the remainder of the function consists of if-statements which will not
    be entered if type is "s64", we will just return "val", which is
    correct, albeit at the cost of a few more calls to strcmp(), i.e., it
    will behave just as if the if-statement was entered.
    
    If type is neither "s64" or "u64", the body of the if-statement will be
    entered incorrectly and "val" returned. This means that any type that is
    checked after "s64" and "u64" is handled the same way as "s64" and
    "u64", i.e., the limiting of "val" to fit in for example "s8" is never
    reached.
    
    This was introduced in the kernel tree when the sources were copied from
    trace-cmd in commit f7d82350 ("tools/events: Add files to create
    libtraceevent.a"), and in the trace-cmd repo in 1cdbae6035cei
    ("Implement typecasting in parser") when the function was introduced,
    i.e., it has always behaved the wrong way.
    
    Detected by cppcheck.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Cc: Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tstoyanov@vmware.com>
    Fixes: f7d82350 ("tools/events: Add files to create libtraceevent.a")
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190409091529.2686-1-rikard.falkeborn@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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