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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kernel.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/hexdump.c | 32 |
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index a890428bcc1a..fe6efb24d151 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ static inline char *hex_byte_pack_upper(char *buf, u8 byte) return buf; } -extern int hex_to_bin(char ch); +extern int hex_to_bin(unsigned char ch); extern int __must_check hex2bin(u8 *dst, const char *src, size_t count); extern char *bin2hex(char *dst, const void *src, size_t count); diff --git a/lib/hexdump.c b/lib/hexdump.c index 9301578f98e8..369420ce553a 100644 --- a/lib/hexdump.c +++ b/lib/hexdump.c @@ -22,15 +22,33 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(hex_asc_upper); * * hex_to_bin() converts one hex digit to its actual value or -1 in case of bad * input. + * + * This function is used to load cryptographic keys, so it is coded in such a + * way that there are no conditions or memory accesses that depend on data. + * + * Explanation of the logic: + * (ch - '9' - 1) is negative if ch <= '9' + * ('0' - 1 - ch) is negative if ch >= '0' + * we "and" these two values, so the result is negative if ch is in the range + * '0' ... '9' + * we are only interested in the sign, so we do a shift ">> 8"; note that right + * shift of a negative value is implementation-defined, so we cast the + * value to (unsigned) before the shift --- we have 0xffffff if ch is in + * the range '0' ... '9', 0 otherwise + * we "and" this value with (ch - '0' + 1) --- we have a value 1 ... 10 if ch is + * in the range '0' ... '9', 0 otherwise + * we add this value to -1 --- we have a value 0 ... 9 if ch is in the range '0' + * ... '9', -1 otherwise + * the next line is similar to the previous one, but we need to decode both + * uppercase and lowercase letters, so we use (ch & 0xdf), which converts + * lowercase to uppercase */ -int hex_to_bin(char ch) +int hex_to_bin(unsigned char ch) { - if ((ch >= '0') && (ch <= '9')) - return ch - '0'; - ch = tolower(ch); - if ((ch >= 'a') && (ch <= 'f')) - return ch - 'a' + 10; - return -1; + unsigned char cu = ch & 0xdf; + return -1 + + ((ch - '0' + 1) & (unsigned)((ch - '9' - 1) & ('0' - 1 - ch)) >> 8) + + ((cu - 'A' + 11) & (unsigned)((cu - 'F' - 1) & ('A' - 1 - cu)) >> 8); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(hex_to_bin); |