hex2bin: fix access beyond string end
authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:26:40 +0000 (11:26 -0400)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:57:33 +0000 (10:57 -0700)
commite4d8a29997731b3bb14059024b24df9f784288d0
treef00d3677b90779d9ff1a41bb401e8c9f40c69d1c
parente5be15767e7e284351853cbaba80cde8620341fb
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: b78049831ffe ("lib: add error checking to hex2bin")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lib/hexdump.c