Subject: Re: [PATCH v1.3 1/4] lib: hex2bin converts ascii hexadecimal
 string to binary
From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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        keyrings@linux-nfs.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
        David Safford <safford@watson.ibm.com>,
        Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:23:21 -0500
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On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 19:48 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > +void hex2bin(unsigned char *mem, char *buf, int count)
> 
> I think this needs a little adjustment.  I would recommend something like the
> following declaration:
> 
> 	void hex2bin(u8 *buf, const char *data, size_t count)
> 
> since the output data is binary (so use u8*), you're only reading the source
> data (so should use a const pointer) and you don't want to see a negative
> count (so use size_t).

right, thanks.

> Also, I'd suggest calling the source arg 'data' and the output arg 'buf' or
> maybe src/dst.
> 
> David

Definitely better. (Remnant from kgdb_hex2mem() naming.)

thanks,

Mimi


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