checksrc: ban use of sscanf() #15687
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Using sscanf() is not a (security) problem in itself, but we strongly discorage using it for parsing input since it is hard to use right, easy to mess up and often makes for sloppy error checking. Allow it in examples and tests
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Using sscanf() is not a (security) problem in itself, but we strongly discourage using it for parsing input since it is hard to use right, easy to mess up and often makes for sloppy error checking.