[PATCH] Fix sscanf

Jeff Dike (jdike@karaya.com)
Sun, 23 Sep 2001 22:54:10 -0500


sscanf double-increments fmt in a couple of places, causing format characters
to be skipped. Patch follows.

I'm a bit unhappy about the second chunk, but I don't see a cleaner way to
do it offhand.

Jeff

--- orig/lib/vsprintf.c Sun Sep 23 19:20:54 2001
+++ 2.4.10/lib/vsprintf.c Sun Sep 23 21:28:55 2001
@@ -530,7 +530,8 @@

/* anything that is not a conversion must match exactly */
if (*fmt != '%') {
- if (*fmt++ != *str++)
+ /* Don't bump fmt because the for header will do it */
+ if (*fmt != *str++)
return num;
continue;
}
@@ -542,6 +543,10 @@
if (*fmt == '*') {
while (!isspace(*fmt))
fmt++;
+ /* Back it up one because the for header will move it
+ * it forward again
+ */
+ fmt--;
while(!isspace(*str))
str++;
continue;

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