History log of /linux-master/lib/hexdump.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# e4d8a299 27-Apr-2022 Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>

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>


# e5be1576 25-Apr-2022 Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>

hex2bin: make the function hex_to_bin constant-time

The function hex2bin is used to load cryptographic keys into device
mapper targets dm-crypt and dm-integrity. It should take constant time
independent on the processed data, so that concurrently running
unprivileged code can't infer any information about the keys via
microarchitectural convert channels.

This patch changes the function hex_to_bin so that it contains no
branches and no memory accesses.

Note that this shouldn't cause performance degradation because the size
of the new function is the same as the size of the old function (on
x86-64) - and the new function causes no branch misprediction penalties.

I compile-tested this function with gcc on aarch64 alpha arm hppa hppa64
i386 ia64 m68k mips32 mips64 powerpc powerpc64 riscv sh4 s390x sparc32
sparc64 x86_64 and with clang on aarch64 arm hexagon i386 mips32 mips64
powerpc powerpc64 s390x sparc32 sparc64 x86_64 to verify that there are
no branches in the generated code.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# b296a6d5 15-Oct-2020 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

kernel.h: split out min()/max() et al. helpers

kernel.h is being used as a dump for all kinds of stuff for a long time.
Here is the attempt to start cleaning it up by splitting out min()/max()
et al. helpers.

At the same time convert users in header and lib folder to use new header.
Though for time being include new header back to kernel.h to avoid
twisted indirected includes for other existing users.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200910164152.GA1891694@smile.fi.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 091cb099 25-Sep-2019 Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>

lib/hexdump: make print_hex_dump_bytes() a nop on !DEBUG builds

I'm seeing a bunch of debug prints from a user of print_hex_dump_bytes()
in my kernel logs, but I don't have CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG enabled nor do I
have DEBUG defined in my build. The problem is that
print_hex_dump_bytes() calls a wrapper function in lib/hexdump.c that
calls print_hex_dump() with KERN_DEBUG level. There are three cases to
consider here

1. CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y --> call dynamic_hex_dum()
2. CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=n && DEBUG --> call print_hex_dump()
3. CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=n && !DEBUG --> stub it out

Right now, that last case isn't detected and we still call
print_hex_dump() from the stub wrapper.

Let's make print_hex_dump_bytes() only call print_hex_dump_debug() so that
it works properly in all cases.

Case #1, print_hex_dump_debug() calls dynamic_hex_dump() and we get same
behavior. Case #2, print_hex_dump_debug() calls print_hex_dump() with
KERN_DEBUG and we get the same behavior. Case #3, print_hex_dump_debug()
is a nop, changing behavior to what we want, i.e. print nothing.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190816235624.115280-1-swboyd@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 21042e41 04-Jun-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 501

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
published by the free software foundation see readme and copying for
more details

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 9 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081207.060259192@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 9888a588 08-Sep-2017 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

lib/hexdump.c: return -EINVAL in case of error in hex2bin()

In some cases caller would like to use error code directly without
shadowing.

-EINVAL feels a rightful code to return in case of error in hex2bin().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170731135510.68023-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 9f029f54 06-Nov-2015 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

lib/hexdump.c: truncate output in case of overflow

There is a classical off-by-one error in case when we try to place, for
example, 1+1 bytes as hex in the buffer of size 6. The expected result is
to get an output truncated, but in the reality we get 6 bytes filed
followed by terminating NUL.

Change the logic how we fill the output in case of byte dumping into
limited space. This will follow the snprintf() behaviour by truncating
output even on half bytes.

Fixes: 114fc1afb2de (hexdump: make it return number of bytes placed in buffer)
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 0f70fe60 17-Jul-2015 Horacio Mijail Anton Quiles <hmijail@gmail.com>

hexdump: fix for non-aligned buffers

A hexdump with a buf not aligned to the groupsize causes
non-naturally-aligned memory accesses. This was causing a kernel panic
on the processor BlackFin BF527, when such an unaligned buffer was fed
by the function ubifs_scanned_corruption in fs/ubifs/scan.c .

To fix this, change accesses to the contents of the buffer so they go
through get_unaligned(). This change should be harmless to unaligned-
access-capable architectures, and any performance hit should be anyway
dwarfed by the snprintf() processing time.

Signed-off-by: Horacio Mijail Antón Quiles <hmijail@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 114fc1af 12-Feb-2015 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

hexdump: make it return number of bytes placed in buffer

This patch makes hexdump return the number of bytes placed in the buffer
excluding trailing NUL. In the case of overflow it returns the desired
amount of bytes to produce the entire dump. Thus, it mimics snprintf().

This will be useful for users that would like to repeat with a bigger
buffer.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning]
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 5d909c8d 12-Feb-2015 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

hexdump: do a few calculations ahead

Instead of doing calculations in each case of different groupsize let's do
them beforehand. While there, change the switch to an if-else-if
construction.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 6f6f3fcb 12-Feb-2015 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

hexdump: fix ascii column for the tail of a dump

In the current implementation we have a floating ascii column in the tail
of the dump.

For example, for row size equal to 16 the ascii column as in following
table

group size \ length 8 12 16
1 50 50 50
2 22 32 42
4 20 29 38
8 19 - 36

This patch makes it the same independently of amount of bytes dumped.

The change is safe since all current users, which use ASCII part of the
dump, rely on the group size equal to 1. The patch doesn't change
behaviour for such group size (see the table above).

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 53d91c5c 16-Sep-2014 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Provide a binary to hex conversion function

Provide a function to convert a buffer of binary data into an unterminated
ascii hex string representation of that data.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>


# c26d436c 13-Sep-2013 Andre Naujoks <nautsch2@gmail.com>

lib: introduce upper case hex ascii helpers

To be able to use the hex ascii functions in case sensitive environments
the array hex_asc_upper[] and the needed functions for hex_byte_pack_upper()
are introduced.

Signed-off-by: Andre Naujoks <nautsch2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 7a555613 05-Dec-2012 Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>

dynamic_debug: dynamic hex dump

Introduce print_hex_dump_debug() that can be dynamically controlled, similar to
pr_debug.

Also, make print_hex_dump_bytes() dynamically controlled

Implement only 'p' flag (_DPRINTK_FLAGS_PRINT) to keep it simple since hex dump prints
multiple lines and long prefix would impact readability.
To provide line/file etc. information, use pr_debug or similar
before/after print_hex_dump_debug()

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 8bc3bcc9 16-Nov-2011 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

lib: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible

For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map
them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even
using those, then just delete the include. Fix up any implicit
include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along
the way.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>


# b7804983 20-Sep-2011 Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

lib: add error checking to hex2bin

hex2bin converts a hexadecimal string to its binary representation.
The original version of hex2bin did not do any error checking. This
patch adds error checking and returns the result.

Changelog v1:
- removed unpack_hex_byte()
- changed return code from boolean to int

Changelog:
- use the new unpack_hex_byte()
- add __must_check compiler option (Andy Shevchenko's suggestion)
- change function API to return error checking result
(based on Tetsuo Handa's initial patch)

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>


# ac83ed68 12-Jan-2011 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

include/linux/printk.h lib/hexdump.c: neatening and add CONFIG_PRINTK guard

- Move prototypes and align arguments.

- Add CONFIG_PRINTK guard for print_hex functions

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# dc88e460 23-Nov-2010 Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

lib: hex2bin converts ascii hexadecimal string to binary

Similar to the kgdb_hex2mem() code, hex2bin converts a string
to binary using the hex_to_bin() library call.

Changelog:
- Replace parameter names with src/dst (based on David Howell's comment)
- Add 'const' where needed (based on David Howell's comment)
- Replace int with size_t (based on David Howell's comment)

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>


# 90378889 24-May-2010 Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko@nokia.com>

lib: introduce common method to convert hex digits

hex_to_bin() is a little method which converts hex digit to its actual
value. There are plenty of places where such functionality is needed.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use tolower(), saving 3 bytes, test the more common case first - it's quicker]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: relocate tolower to make it even faster! (Joe)]
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko@nokia.com>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@free.fr>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "Richard Russon (FlatCap)" <ldm@flatcap.org>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# db0fd97c 24-May-2010 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

lib/hexdump.c: reduce stack variable size and cleanups

Reduce char linebuf[200] to the actual size required., which is 32 * 3 + 2
+ 32 + 1, ie: linebuf[131].

Change examples to use bool true not int 1.

Align multiline argument indentation to open parenthesis.

Use temporary for ptr[j] so trigraph fits on single line.

Convert printk ptr from %*p, (int)(2 * sizeof(void *)) to %p as %p uses
the same calculation for size.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# c67ae69b 16-Jun-2009 Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>

hexdump: remove the trailing space

For example:
hex_dump_to_buffer("AB", 2, 16, 1, buf, 100, 0);
pr_info("[%s]\n", buf);

I'd expect the output to be "[41 42]", but actually it's "[41 42 ]"

This patch also makes the required buf to be minimum. To print the hex
format of "AB", a buf with size 6 should be sufficient, but
hex_dump_to_buffer() required at least 8.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 3fc95772 14-May-2008 Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>

lib: create common ascii hex array

Add a common hex array in hexdump.c so everyone can use it.

Add a common hi/lo helper to avoid the shifting masking that is
done to get the upper and lower nibbles of a byte value.

Pull the pack_hex_byte helper from kgdb as it is opencoded many
places in the tree that will be consolidated.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# d0eec99c 28-Nov-2007 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

hexdump: don't print bytes with bit 7 set

As Herbert Xu pointed out, bytes (chars) with bit 7 (0x80) set are true
with isprint() but they may not be isascii() but be Unicode instead, so
don't try to print them in hex dumps.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# eb9a9a56 10-Aug-2007 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>

hex_dump: add missing "const" qualifiers

Add missing "const" qualifiers to the print_hex_dump_bytes() library routines.

(akpm: rumoured to fix some compile warning somewhere)

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 6a0ed91e 07-Aug-2007 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

hexdump: use const notation

Trivial fix: mark the buffer to hexdump as const so callers could avoid
casting their const buffers when calling print_hex_dump().

The patch is really trivial and I suggest to consider it as a fix
(it fixes GCC warnings) and push it to current tree.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# c7909234 08-Jun-2007 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

hexdump: more output formatting

Add a prefix string parameter. Callers are responsible for any string
length/alignment that they want to see in the output. I.e., callers should
pad strings to achieve alignment if they want that.

Add rowsize parameter. This is the number of raw data bytes to be printed
per line. Must be 16 or 32.

Add a groupsize parameter. This allows callers to dump values as 1-byte,
2-byte, 4-byte, or 8-byte numbers. Default is 1-byte numbers. If the
total length is not an even multiple of groupsize, 1-byte numbers are
printed.

Add an "ascii" output parameter. This causes ASCII data output following
the hex data output.

Clean up some doc examples.

Align the ASCII output on all lines that are produced by one call.

Add a new interface, print_hex_dump_bytes(), that is a shortcut to
print_hex_dump(), using default parameter values to print 16 bytes in
byte-size chunks of hex + ASCII output, using printk level KERN_DEBUG.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 99eaf3c4 10-May-2007 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

lib/hexdump

Based on ace_dump_mem() from Grant Likely for the Xilinx SystemACE
CompactFlash interface.

Add print_hex_dump() & hex_dumper() to lib/hexdump.c and linux/kernel.h.

This patch adds the functions print_hex_dump() & hex_dumper().
print_hex_dump() can be used to perform a hex + ASCII dump of data to
syslog, in an easily viewable format, thus providing a common text hex dump
format.

hex_dumper() provides a dump-to-memory function. It converts one "line" of
output (16 bytes of input) at a time.

Example usages:
print_hex_dump(KERN_DEBUG, DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS, frame->data, frame->len);
hex_dumper(frame->data, frame->len, linebuf, sizeof(linebuf));

Example output using %DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET:
0009ab42: 40414243 44454647 48494a4b 4c4d4e4f-@ABCDEFG HIJKLMNO
Example output using %DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS:
ffffffff88089af0: 70717273 74757677 78797a7b 7c7d7e7f-pqrstuvw xyz{|}~.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, add export]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>