Re: [PATCH] ecryptfs: remove private bin2hex implementation

[Tyler Hicks]

On 09/20/2016 06:17 PM, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> Calling sprintf in a loop is not very efficient, and in any case, we
> already have an implementation of bin-to-hex conversion in lib/ which
> we might as well use.
> 
> Note that ecryptfs_to_hex used to nul-terminate the destination (and
> the kernel doc was wrong about the required output size), while
> bin2hex doesn't. [All but one user of ecryptfs_to_hex explicitly
> nul-terminates the result anyway.]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

ecryptfs_kernel.h needs to include <linux/kernel.h> for the declaration
of bin2hex() (it didn't cause a problem because other included header
files, such as <linux/namei.h> pulled in <linux/kernel.h>). I've made
that change and will push the patch to the eCryptfs next branch. Thank you!

Tyler

> ---
>  fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c          | 15 ---------------
>  fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h |  8 +++++++-
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
> index e5e29f8c920b..7acd57da4f14 100644
> --- a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
> +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
> @@ -42,21 +42,6 @@
>  #define ENCRYPT		1
>  
>  /**
> - * ecryptfs_to_hex
> - * @dst: Buffer to take hex character representation of contents of
> - *       src; must be at least of size (src_size * 2)
> - * @src: Buffer to be converted to a hex string representation
> - * @src_size: number of bytes to convert
> - */
> -void ecryptfs_to_hex(char *dst, char *src, size_t src_size)
> -{
> -	int x;
> -
> -	for (x = 0; x < src_size; x++)
> -		sprintf(&dst[x * 2], "%.2x", (unsigned char)src[x]);
> -}
> -
> -/**
>   * ecryptfs_from_hex
>   * @dst: Buffer to take the bytes from src hex; must be at least of
>   *       size (src_size / 2)
> diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h b/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h
> index 4ba1547bb9ad..548caac3a907 100644
> --- a/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h
> +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h
> @@ -51,7 +51,13 @@
>  #define ECRYPTFS_XATTR_NAME "user.ecryptfs"
>  
>  void ecryptfs_dump_auth_tok(struct ecryptfs_auth_tok *auth_tok);
> -extern void ecryptfs_to_hex(char *dst, char *src, size_t src_size);
> +static inline void
> +ecryptfs_to_hex(char *dst, char *src, size_t src_size)
> +{
> +	char *end = bin2hex(dst, src, src_size);
> +	*end = '\0';
> +}
> +
>  extern void ecryptfs_from_hex(char *dst, char *src, int dst_size);
>  
>  struct ecryptfs_key_record {
>

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