The patch titled sscanf(): fix %*s%n has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was sscanf-fix-%s%n.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: sscanf(): fix %*s%n From: Andy Spencer <andy753421@xxxxxxxxx> 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. Signed-off-by: Andy Spencer <andy753421@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/vsprintf.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN lib/vsprintf.c~sscanf-fix-%s%n lib/vsprintf.c --- a/lib/vsprintf.c~sscanf-fix-%s%n +++ a/lib/vsprintf.c @@ -1771,7 +1771,7 @@ int vsscanf(const char * buf, const char * advance both strings to next white space */ if (*fmt == '*') { - while (!isspace(*fmt) && *fmt) + while (!isspace(*fmt) && *fmt != '%' && *fmt) fmt++; while (!isspace(*str) && *str) str++; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from andy753421@xxxxxxxxx are -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html