linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/5] IHEX bug fix and some improvements

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Date:   Thu, 20 Dec 2018 23:28:36 -0800
From:   Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@...il.com>,
        Chris Healy <cphealy@...il.com>,
        Kyle McMartin <kyle@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/5] IHEX bug fix and some improvements

Everyone:

This series is a big-fix to a problem I encountered while using code
in <linux/ihex.h> bundled with a number of small improvmements. The
bug fix is in commit:

[PATCH 2/5] ihex: Check if zero-length record is at the end of the

Small improvmentes are in the rest and all of them are purely
optional. Hopefully each commit is self-explanatory.

Feedback is welcome!

Thanks,
Andrey Smirnov

NOTE: This series is expected to be applied on top of [fimrware-patch]

[firmware-patch] lkml.kernel.org/r/20181017182718.32740-1-andrew.smirnov@...il.com

Andrey Smirnov (5):
  ihex: Share code between ihex_validate_fw() and ihex_next_binrec()
  ihex: Check if zero-length record is at the end of the blob
  ihex: Simplify next record offset calculation
  tools/firmware/ihex2fw: Simplify next record offset calculation
  tools/firmware/ihex2fw: Replace explicit alignment with ALIGN

 include/linux/ihex.h     | 29 +++++++++++++++++++----------
 tools/firmware/ihex2fw.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

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2.19.1