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, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 46ac9a50528..8eefcf7e95e 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ static inline char *pack_hex_byte(char *buf, u8 byte)
 }
 
 extern int hex_to_bin(char ch);
-extern void hex2bin(u8 *dst, const char *src, size_t count);
+extern int __must_check hex2bin(u8 *dst, const char *src, size_t count);
 
 /*
  * General tracing related utility functions - trace_printk(),