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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2011-05-07 23:00:07 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-05-09 12:10:49 -0700
commit4940fc889e1e63667a15243028ddcd84d471cd8e (patch)
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net: add mac_pton() for parsing MAC address
mac_pton() parses MAC address in form XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX and only in that form. mac_pton() doesn't dirty result until it's sure string representation is valid. mac_pton() doesn't care about characters _after_ last octet, it's up to caller to deal with it. mac_pton() diverges from 0/-E return value convention. Target usage: if (!mac_pton(str, whatever->mac)) return -EINVAL; /* ->mac being u8 [ETH_ALEN] is filled at this point. */ /* optionally check str[3 * ETH_ALEN - 1] for termination */ Use mac_pton() in pktgen and netconsole for start. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/net/core/utils.c b/net/core/utils.c
index 5fea0ab21902..2012bc797f9c 100644
--- a/net/core/utils.c
+++ b/net/core/utils.c
@@ -296,3 +296,27 @@ void inet_proto_csum_replace4(__sum16 *sum, struct sk_buff *skb,
csum_unfold(*sum)));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(inet_proto_csum_replace4);
+
+int mac_pton(const char *s, u8 *mac)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ /* XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX */
+ if (strlen(s) < 3 * ETH_ALEN - 1)
+ return 0;
+
+ /* Don't dirty result unless string is valid MAC. */
+ for (i = 0; i < ETH_ALEN; i++) {
+ if (!strchr("0123456789abcdefABCDEF", s[i * 3]))
+ return 0;
+ if (!strchr("0123456789abcdefABCDEF", s[i * 3 + 1]))
+ return 0;
+ if (i != ETH_ALEN - 1 && s[i * 3 + 2] != ':')
+ return 0;
+ }
+ for (i = 0; i < ETH_ALEN; i++) {
+ mac[i] = (hex_to_bin(s[i * 3]) << 4) | hex_to_bin(s[i * 3 + 1]);
+ }
+ return 1;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(mac_pton);