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>

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);