vboxfs: fix broken legacy mount signature checking
[ Upstream commit 9b3b353e ] Commit 9d682ea6 ("vboxsf: Fix the check for the old binary mount-arguments struct") was meant to fix a build error due to sign mismatch in 'char' and the use of character constants, but it just moved the error elsewhere, in that on some architectures characters and signed and on others they are unsigned, and that's just how the C standard works. The proper fix is a simple "don't do that then". The code was just being silly and odd, and it should never have cared about signed vs unsigned characters in the first place, since what it is testing is not four "characters", but four bytes. And the way to compare four bytes is by using "memcmp()". Which compilers will know to just turn into a single 32-bit compare with a constant, as long as you don't have crazy debug options enabled. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210927094123.576521-1-arnd@kernel.org/ Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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