Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Make sscanf() stricter

[Demi Marie Obenour]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 01:02:59PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Demi Marie Obenour
> > Sent: 12 June 2023 22:23
> ....
> > sscanf(), except to the extent that -Werror=format can keep working.
> > Userspace sscanf() is almost useless: it has undefined behavior on
> > integer overflow and swallows spaces that should usually be rejected.
> 
> scanf() is designed for parsing space separated data.
> Eating spaces it part of its job description.
> 
> 	David

In this case I would prefer to have two versions: one that eats spaces
and one that does not.  For instance, I don’t think any user of
xenbus_scanf() wants the space-swallowing behavior.  This can be worked
around in xenbus_scanf(), of course, by having it reject strings with
spaces (as determened by isspace()) before calling vsscanf().
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
Invisible Things Lab

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