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SubjectRE: Bug in vsprintf.c - vsscanf()
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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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