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17 
18 /* $Id$ */
19 
20 /*! \file */
21 
22 #include <config.h>
23 #include <limits.h>
24 #include <isc/string.h>
25 
26 /* Making a portable memcmp that has no internal branches and loops always
27  * once for every byte without early-out shortcut has a few challenges.
28  *
29  * Inspired by 'timingsafe_memcmp()' from the BSD system and
30  * https://github.com/libressl-portable/openbsd/blob/master/src/lib/libc/string/timingsafe_memcmp.c
31  *
32  * Sadly, that one is not portable C: It makes assumptions on the representation
33  * of negative integers and assumes sign-preserving right-shift of negative
34  * signed values. This is a rewrite from scratch that should not suffer from
35  * such issues.
36  *
37  * 2015-12-12, J. Perlinger (perlinger-at-ntp-dot-org)
38  */
39 int
40 isc_tsmemcmp(const void *p1, const void *p2, size_t nb) {
41 	const unsigned char *ucp1 = p1;
42 	const unsigned char *ucp2 = p2;
43 	unsigned int isLT = 0u;
44 	unsigned int isGT = 0u;
45 	volatile unsigned int mask = (1u << CHAR_BIT);
46 
47 	for (/*NOP*/; 0 != nb; --nb, ++ucp1, ++ucp2) {
48 		isLT |= mask &
49 		    ((unsigned int)*ucp1 - (unsigned int)*ucp2);
50 		isGT |= mask &
51 		    ((unsigned int)*ucp2 - (unsigned int)*ucp1);
52 		mask &= ~(isLT | isGT);
53 	}
54 	return (int)(isGT >> CHAR_BIT) - (int)(isLT >> CHAR_BIT);
55 }
56