[PATCH] xen/lib: Fix strcmp() and strncmp()

[Jane Malalane <jane.malalane@citrix.com>]

The C standard requires that each character be compared as unsigned
char. Xen's current behaviour compares as signed char, which changes
the answer when chars with a value greater than 0x7f are used.

Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jane Malalane <jane.malalane@citrix.com>
---
CC: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
CC: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
CC: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
CC: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
CC: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
---
 xen/lib/strcmp.c  | 8 +++++---
 xen/lib/strncmp.c | 8 +++++---
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/lib/strcmp.c b/xen/lib/strcmp.c
index 465f1c4191..f85c1e8741 100644
--- a/xen/lib/strcmp.c
+++ b/xen/lib/strcmp.c
@@ -11,14 +11,16 @@
  */
 int (strcmp)(const char *cs, const char *ct)
 {
-	register signed char __res;
+	unsigned char *csu = (unsigned char *)cs;
+	unsigned char *ctu = (unsigned char *)ct;
+	int res;
 
 	while (1) {
-		if ((__res = *cs - *ct++) != 0 || !*cs++)
+		if ((res = *csu - *ctu++) != 0 || !*csu++)
 			break;
 	}
 
-	return __res;
+	return res;
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/xen/lib/strncmp.c b/xen/lib/strncmp.c
index 9af7fa1c99..1480f58c2e 100644
--- a/xen/lib/strncmp.c
+++ b/xen/lib/strncmp.c
@@ -12,15 +12,17 @@
  */
 int (strncmp)(const char *cs, const char *ct, size_t count)
 {
-	register signed char __res = 0;
+	unsigned char *csu = (unsigned char *)cs;
+	unsigned char *ctu = (unsigned char *)ct;
+	int res = 0;
 
 	while (count) {
-		if ((__res = *cs - *ct++) != 0 || !*cs++)
+		if ((res = *csu - *ctu++) != 0 || !*csu++)
 			break;
 		count--;
 	}
 
-	return __res;
+	return res;
 }
 
 /*
-- 
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