[PATCH v3 3/4] vsscanf(): do not skip spaces

[Demi Marie Obenour <demi@invisiblethingslab.com>]

Passing spaces before e.g. an integer is usually
not intended.  This was suggested by Christoph in
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZIQrohcizoj4bZWx@infradead.org/.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@invisiblethingslab.com>
---
 lib/vsprintf.c | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 9e53355c35b1d6260631868228ede1d178fe3325..665f6197f8313d653f67d7886b12c43942e058dd 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -3551,8 +3551,6 @@ int vsscanf(const char *buf, const char *fmt, va_list args)
 			char *s = (char *)va_arg(args, char *);
 			if (field_width == -1)
 				field_width = SHRT_MAX;
-			/* first, skip leading white space in buffer */
-			str = skip_spaces(str);
 
 			/* now copy until next white space */
 			while (*str && !isspace(*str) && field_width--)
@@ -3639,11 +3637,7 @@ int vsscanf(const char *buf, const char *fmt, va_list args)
 			return num;
 		}
 
-		/* have some sort of integer conversion.
-		 * first, skip white space in buffer.
-		 */
-		str = skip_spaces(str);
-
+		/* have some sort of integer conversion. */
 		digit = *str;
 		if (is_sign && digit == '-') {
 			if (field_width == 1)
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
Invisible Things Lab