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authorJessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>2016-03-17 14:23:07 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-17 15:09:34 -0700
commitf9310b2f9a19b7f16c7b1c1558f8b649b9b933c1 (patch)
tree559a1c94f69faaba6714505377e5a4196e30fc67 /drivers/power
parent2553b67a1fbe7bf202e4e8070ab0b00d3d3a06a2 (diff)
sscanf: implement basic character sets
Implement basic character sets for the '%[' conversion specifier. The '%[' conversion specifier matches a nonempty sequence of characters from the specified set of accepted (or with '^', rejected) characters between the brackets. The substring matched is to be made up of characters in (or not in) the set. This is useful for matching substrings that are delimited by something other than spaces. This implementation differs from its glibc counterpart in the following ways: (1) No support for character ranges (e.g., 'a-z' or '0-9') (2) The hyphen '-' is not a special character (3) The closing bracket ']' cannot be matched (4) No support (yet) for discarding matching input ('%*[') The bitmap code is largely based upon sample code which was provided by Rasmus. The motivation for adding character set support to sscanf originally stemmed from the kernel livepatching project. An ongoing patchset utilizes new livepatch Elf symbol and section names to store important metadata livepatch needs to properly apply its patches. Such metadata is stored in these section and symbol names as substrings delimited by periods '.' and commas ','. For example, a livepatch symbol name might look like this: .klp.sym.vmlinux.printk,0 However, sscanf currently can only extract "substrings" delimited by whitespace using the "%s" specifier. Thus for the above symbol name, one cannot not use sscanf() to extract substrings "vmlinux" or "printk", for example. A number of discussions on the livepatch mailing list dealing with string parsing code for extracting these '.' and ',' delimited substrings eventually led to the conclusion that such code would be completely unnecessary if the kernel sscanf() supported character sets. Thus only a single sscanf() call would be necessary to extract these substrings. In addition, such an addition to sscanf() could benefit other areas of the kernel that might have a similar need in the future. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: 80-col tweaks] Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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