From 1a58be6277e4324c853babfd35890c2d5e171e8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Dobriyan Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:56:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] lib: memscan() fixlet Generic version doesn't trucate second argument to char. Older brother memchr() does as do s390, sparc and i386 assembly versions. Fortunately, no code passes c >= 256. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YLv4cCf0t5UPdyK+@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- lib/string.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c index 7548eb7..77bd0b1 100644 --- a/lib/string.c +++ b/lib/string.c @@ -977,7 +977,7 @@ void *memscan(void *addr, int c, size_t size) unsigned char *p = addr; while (size) { - if (*p == c) + if (*p == (unsigned char)c) return (void *)p; p++; size--; -- 2.7.4