linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 04/10] lib/uuid: introduce few more generic helpers for UUID

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 05 Apr 2016 17:15:58 +0300
From:	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@...il.com>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/10] lib/uuid: introduce few more generic helpers
 for UUID

On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 16:56 +0300, Andy Shevchenko 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/lib/uuid.c
> +++ b/lib/uuid.c

> +static int __uuid_to_bin(const char *uuid, __u8 b[16], const u8
> ei[16])
> +{
> +	static const u8 si[16] =
> {0,2,4,6,9,11,14,16,19,21,24,26,28,30,32,34};
> +	unsigned int i;
> +
> +	if (uuid_is_valid(uuid))

Oops, sorry, typo is here, should be negative check.

if (!uuid_is_valid(uuid))


> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
> +		int hi = hex_to_bin(uuid[si[i]] + 0);
> +		int lo = hex_to_bin(uuid[si[i]] + 1);
> +
> +		b[ei[i]] = (hi << 4) | lo;
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}

-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy