From: Mimi Zohar Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:50:31 +0000 (-0500) Subject: lib: hex2bin converts ascii hexadecimal string to binary X-Git-Url: http://git.alex.org.uk lib: hex2bin converts ascii hexadecimal string to binary Similar to the kgdb_hex2mem() code, hex2bin converts a string to binary using the hex_to_bin() library call. Changelog: - Replace parameter names with src/dst (based on David Howell's comment) - Add 'const' where needed (based on David Howell's comment) - Replace int with size_t (based on David Howell's comment) Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn Acked-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: James Morris --- diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index a35b4f7..d0fbc04 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -265,6 +265,7 @@ 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); /* * General tracing related utility functions - trace_printk(), diff --git a/lib/hexdump.c b/lib/hexdump.c index 5d7a480..b66b2bd 100644 --- a/lib/hexdump.c +++ b/lib/hexdump.c @@ -34,6 +34,22 @@ int hex_to_bin(char ch) EXPORT_SYMBOL(hex_to_bin); /** + * hex2bin - convert an ascii hexadecimal string to its binary representation + * @dst: binary result + * @src: ascii hexadecimal string + * @count: result length + */ +void hex2bin(u8 *dst, const char *src, size_t count) +{ + while (count--) { + *dst = hex_to_bin(*src++) << 4; + *dst += hex_to_bin(*src++); + dst++; + } +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(hex2bin); + +/** * hex_dump_to_buffer - convert a blob of data to "hex ASCII" in memory * @buf: data blob to dump * @len: number of bytes in the @buf