Re: [PATCH v2] lib: parser: Fix match_wildcard to correctly handle trailing stars

[Josh Law]

On 26 March 2026 02:25:34 GMT, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:06:04 +0900 Inseob Kim <inseob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> This fixes a bug of match_wildcard that incorrectly handles trailing
>> asterisks. For example, `match_wildcard("abc**", "abc")` must return
>> true, but it returns false.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Inseob Kim <inseob@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> v2:
>>   - Added Cc. No changes to the code.
>> ---
>>  lib/parser.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/lib/parser.c b/lib/parser.c
>> index 73e8f8e5be73..62da0ac0d438 100644
>> --- a/lib/parser.c
>> +++ b/lib/parser.c
>> @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ bool match_wildcard(const char *pattern, const char *str)
>>  		}
>>  	}
>>  
>> -	if (*p == '*')
>> +	while (*p == '*')
>>  		++p;
>>  	return !*p;
>>  }
>
>Thanks, looks right.
>
>We don't appear to have any selftesting for this code.
>
>Should all of parser.c actually exist?  Some of it is a subset of
>lib/glob.c?



Hi!


Reviewed-By: Josh Law <objecting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Good patch