Check the result of sscanf to verify a result was found. report and error and abort if pattern was not found.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Clayton <[email protected]> --- tools/spi/spidev_test.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/spi/spidev_test.c b/tools/spi/spidev_test.c index 02fc3a4..322370d 100644 --- a/tools/spi/spidev_test.c +++ b/tools/spi/spidev_test.c @@ -86,13 +86,17 @@ static void hex_dump(const void *src, size_t length, size_t line_size, char *pre static int unescape(char *_dst, char *_src, size_t len) { int ret = 0; + int match; char *src = _src; char *dst = _dst; unsigned int ch; while (*src) { if (*src == '\\' && *(src+1) == 'x') { - sscanf(src + 2, "%2x", &ch); + match = sscanf(src + 2, "%2x", &ch); + if (!match) + pabort("malformed input string"); + src += 4; *dst++ = (unsigned char)ch; } else { -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

