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authorMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2010-11-23 17:50:31 -0500
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2010-11-29 08:55:11 +1100
commitdc88e46029486ed475c71fe1bb696d39511ac8fe (patch)
tree75f5bbf30480d4126315211ea6fb3af395e5f09c /lib/hexdump.c
parentce6ada35bdf710d16582cc4869c26722547e6f11 (diff)
downloadlinux-dc88e46029486ed475c71fe1bb696d39511ac8fe.tar.gz
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 <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/hexdump.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/hexdump.c16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/hexdump.c b/lib/hexdump.c
index 5d7a4802c562..b66b2bd67952 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