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authorMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-09-20 11:23:49 -0400
committerMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-09-20 23:24:44 -0400
commitb78049831ffed65f0b4e61f69df14f3ab17922cb (patch)
tree196c37c7eeab26e5e71d4735cb4dd7a0fa9951df /lib
parent6bce98edc3365a8f780ff3944ac7992544c194fe (diff)
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lib: add error checking to hex2bin
hex2bin converts a hexadecimal string to its binary representation. The original version of hex2bin did not do any error checking. This patch adds error checking and returns the result. Changelog v1: - removed unpack_hex_byte() - changed return code from boolean to int Changelog: - use the new unpack_hex_byte() - add __must_check compiler option (Andy Shevchenko's suggestion) - change function API to return error checking result (based on Tetsuo Handa's initial patch) Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/hexdump.c15
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/hexdump.c b/lib/hexdump.c
index f5fe6ba7a3ab..51d5ae210244 100644
--- a/lib/hexdump.c
+++ b/lib/hexdump.c
@@ -38,14 +38,21 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(hex_to_bin);
* @dst: binary result
* @src: ascii hexadecimal string
* @count: result length
+ *
+ * Return 0 on success, -1 in case of bad input.
*/
-void hex2bin(u8 *dst, const char *src, size_t count)
+int hex2bin(u8 *dst, const char *src, size_t count)
{
while (count--) {
- *dst = hex_to_bin(*src++) << 4;
- *dst += hex_to_bin(*src++);
- dst++;
+ int hi = hex_to_bin(*src++);
+ int lo = hex_to_bin(*src++);
+
+ if ((hi < 0) || (lo < 0))
+ return -1;
+
+ *dst++ = (hi << 4) | lo;
}
+ return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(hex2bin);