Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Sep 2003 08:32:03 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: Bug in vsprintf.c - vsscanf() |
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 10:29:07 +0530 "Ramit Bhalla" <ramit.bhalla@wipro.com> wrote:
| Oh sorry - | It's the 2.4.19 kernel version.
In that case you can look at more recent kernel versions and see that it's already fixed.
~Randy
| -----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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 10:29:07 +0530 "Ramit Bhalla" <ramit.bhalla@wipro.com> wrote:
| Oh sorry - | It's the 2.4.19 kernel version.
In that case you can look at more recent kernel versions and see that it's already fixed.
~Randy
| -----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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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