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Date:   Sat, 10 Feb 2018 10:20:03 +0100
From:   Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Cc:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Robert Abel <rabel@robertabel.eu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] auxdisplay: charlcd: fix hex literal ranges for
 graphics command
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Hi Miguel,

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 09:58:44AM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 12:50 AM, Robert Abel <rabel@robertabel.eu> wrote:
> > The graphics command expects 16 hexadecimal literals, but would allow characters in range [0-9a-zA-Z] instead of [0-9a-fA-F].
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert Abel <rabel@robertabel.eu>
> > ---
> >  drivers/auxdisplay/charlcd.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/auxdisplay/charlcd.c b/drivers/auxdisplay/charlcd.c
> > index 642afd88870b..324d02f9f1c5 100644
> > --- a/drivers/auxdisplay/charlcd.c
> > +++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/charlcd.c
> > @@ -441,9 +441,9 @@ static inline int handle_lcd_special_code(struct charlcd *lcd)
> >                         shift ^= 4;
> >                         if (*esc >= '0' && *esc <= '9') {
> >                                 value |= (*esc - '0') << shift;
> > -                       } else if (*esc >= 'A' && *esc <= 'Z') {
> > +                       } else if (*esc >= 'A' && *esc <= 'F') {
> >                                 value |= (*esc - 'A' + 10) << shift;
> > -                       } else if (*esc >= 'a' && *esc <= 'z') {
> > +                       } else if (*esc >= 'a' && *esc <= 'f') {
> 
> Willy, Geert: this seems obvious, but do you know if the broader range
> was intended for some reason?

No, I think it was simply a brain fart from me 14 years ago, as I can
find it as well in the original 0.9.0 patch for kernel 2.4!

Ack from me on this patch.

Willy