From: "Ramit Bhalla" <ramit.bhalla@wipro.com>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <alan@redhat.com>
Subject: RE: Bug in vsprintf.c - vsscanf()
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 10:29:07 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52C85426D39B314381D76DDD480EEE0CFC69DC@blr-m3-msg.wipro.com> (raw)
Oh sorry -
It's the 2.4.19 kernel version.
Ramit.
-----Original Message-----
From: Randy.Dunlap [mailto:rddunlap@osdl.org]
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 11:34 PM
To: Ramit Bhalla
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; alan@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Bug in vsprintf.c - vsscanf()
> Hi,
>
> There appears to be a bug in vsprintf.c
> The function vsscanf (if I'm correct) is the kernel mode equivalent of user
> mode sscanf. If one tries to read a hex string using the format "%x" it
> returns an error if the read buffer contains any character other than 0-9.
>
> I believe the culprit lies on line 640 of vsprintf.c
>
> It should be "isxdigit" instead of "isdigit".
>
> Hope I'm not missing anything here :)
Like what kernel version...?
If it's 2.4.x, is it recent?
~Randy
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2003-09-02 4:59 Ramit Bhalla [this message]
2003-09-02 15:32 ` Randy.Dunlap
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2003-09-01 16:14 Ramit Bhalla
2003-09-01 18:03 ` Randy.Dunlap
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