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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 16:40:29 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/8] lib/uuid: introduce few more generic helpers for
UUID
On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 16:30:05 +0300 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> There are new helpers in this patch:
>
> uuid_is_valid checks if a UUID is valid
> uuid_be_to_bin converts from string to binary (big endian)
> uuid_le_to_bin converts from string to binary (little endian)
>
> They will be used in future, i.e. in the following patches in the series.
>
> This also moves indices arrays to lib/uuid.c to be shared accross modules.
>
> ...
>
> --- a/include/linux/uuid.h
> +++ b/include/linux/uuid.h
Nit:
> +/**
> + * uuid_is_valid - checks if UUID string valid
> + * @uuid: UUID string to check
> + *
> + * Description:
> + * It checks if the UUID string is following the format:
> + * xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
> + * where x is a hex digit.
> + *
> + * Return: 0 on success, %-EINVAL otherwise.
> + */
> +int uuid_is_valid(const char *uuid)
> +{
> + unsigned int i;
> +
> + if (strnlen(uuid, UUID_STRING_LEN) < UUID_STRING_LEN)
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < UUID_STRING_LEN; i++) {
> + if (i == 8 || i == 13 || i == 18 || i == 23) {
> + if (uuid[i] != '-')
> + return -EINVAL;
> + } else if (!isxdigit(uuid[i])) {
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> + }
Could add
if (uuid[i])
return -EINVAL;
here and lose the additional pass across the input (strlen).
> + return 0;
> +}
>
> ...
>
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