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-rw-r--r--lib/hexdump.c15
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/hexdump.c b/lib/hexdump.c
index f5fe6ba7a3a..51d5ae21024 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);