Pawel Moll <[email protected]> writes:

> On 64-bit machines resource_size_t is a 64-bit value, while
> sscanf() format for this argument was defined as "%u". Fixed
> by using an intermediate local value of a known length.

Actually, on 32-bit machines, too (eg. x86 with PAE).  Otherwise we'd
just change it to %lu.

> +     /* Get "@<base>:<irq>[:<id>]" chunks */
>       processed = sscanf(str, "@%lli:%u%n:%d%n",
> -                     &base, &resources[1].start, &consumed,
> +                     &base, &irq, &consumed,
>                       &vm_cmdline_id, &consumed);
>  
> +     /*
> +      * sscanf() processes 3 chunks if "<id>" is given, 2 if not;
> +      * also there must be no extra characters after the last
> +      * chunk, so str[consumed] should be '\0'
> +      */
>       if (processed < 2 || processed > 3 || str[consumed])
>               return -EINVAL;

I would drop the > 3 case.  It's unnecessary, and you're assuming
consumed doesn't add to the count, which may be true but is a documented
sscanf weirdness so I don't like to rely on it.

Thanks,
Rusty.
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