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hex2bin: fix access beyond string end 

If we pass too short string to "hex2bin" (and the string size without
the terminating NUL character is even), "hex2bin" reads one byte after
the terminating NUL character.  This patch fixes it.

Note that hex_to_bin returns -1 on error and hex2bin return -EINVAL on
error - so we can't just return the variable "hi" or "lo" on error.
This inconsistency may be fixed in the next merge window, but for the
purpose of fixing this bug, we just preserve the existing behavior and
return -1 and -EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Fixes: b78049831f ("lib: add error checking to hex2bin")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mikulas Patocka 2022-04-27 11:26:40 -04:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent e5be15767e
commit e4d8a29997
1 changed files with 6 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -63,10 +63,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(hex_to_bin);
int hex2bin(u8 *dst, const char *src, size_t count)
{
while (count--) {
int hi = hex_to_bin(*src++);
int lo = hex_to_bin(*src++);
int hi, lo;
if ((hi < 0) || (lo < 0))
hi = hex_to_bin(*src++);
if (unlikely(hi < 0))
return -EINVAL;
lo = hex_to_bin(*src++);
if (unlikely(lo < 0))
return -EINVAL;
*dst++ = (hi << 4) | lo;