[PATCH] fix %*s%n in sscanf

[Andy Spencer]

When using %*s, sscanf should honor conversion specifiers immediately following
the %*s. For example, the following code should find the position of the end of
the string "hello".

  int end;
  char buf[] = "hello    world";
  sscanf(buf, "%*s%n", &end);
  printf("%d\n", end);

Ideally, sscanf would advance the fmt and str pointers the same as it would
without the *, but the code for that is rather complicated and is not included
in the patch.

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Signed-off-by: Andy Spencer <andy753421@xxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 73a14b8..da2daf2 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -1766,7 +1766,7 @@ int vsscanf(const char * buf, const char * fmt, va_list args)
 		 * advance both strings to next white space
 		 */
 		if (*fmt == '*') {
-			while (!isspace(*fmt) && *fmt)
+			while (!isspace(*fmt) && *fmt != '%' && *fmt)
 				fmt++;
 			while (!isspace(*str) && *str)
 				str++;

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