From: Drif Abdelmalek Mohamed Said <drifabdelmalekmohamedsaid@gmail.com>
To: Tyler Hicks <code@tyhicks.com>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <blum@kernel.org>,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Drif Abdelmalek Mohamed Said
<drifabdelmalekmohamedsaid@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ecryptfs: replace ecryptfs_from_hex() with hex2bin()
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:45:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260829194528.5652-1-drifabdelmalekmohamedsaid@gmail.com> (raw)
ecryptfs_from_hex() relied on the deprecated simple_strtoul(). Rather
than patching it to use kstrtoul(), its intended replacement, remove it
entirely and switch all call sites to the generic hex2bin() helper
from <linux/hex.h>, which already provides the same functionality.
Update call sites with the (u8 *) casts required by hex2bin()'s
signature.
All call sites guarantee src is composed only of valid hex characters
and that src is at least 2*dst_size bytes, so hex2bin()'s stricter
error handling is never triggered here.
Signed-off-by: Drif Abdelmalek Mohamed Said <drifabdelmalekmohamedsaid@gmail.com>
---
fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c | 18 ------------------
fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h | 1 -
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c | 7 ++++---
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
index e67119b6029c..7e802fd631a6 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
@@ -29,24 +29,6 @@
#define DECRYPT 0
#define ENCRYPT 1
-/**
- * ecryptfs_from_hex
- * @dst: Buffer to take the bytes from src hex; must be at least of
- * size (src_size / 2)
- * @src: Buffer to be converted from a hex string representation to raw value
- * @dst_size: size of dst buffer, or number of hex characters pairs to convert
- */
-void ecryptfs_from_hex(char *dst, char *src, int dst_size)
-{
- int x;
- char tmp[3] = { 0, };
-
- for (x = 0; x < dst_size; x++) {
- tmp[0] = src[x * 2];
- tmp[1] = src[x * 2 + 1];
- dst[x] = (unsigned char)simple_strtol(tmp, NULL, 16);
- }
-}
static int ecryptfs_crypto_api_algify_cipher_name(char **algified_name,
const char *cipher_name,
diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h b/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h
index 58165928ed1e..be91f7c3fc58 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ ecryptfs_to_hex(char *dst, char *src, size_t src_size)
*end = '\0';
}
-extern void ecryptfs_from_hex(char *dst, char *src, int dst_size);
struct ecryptfs_key_record {
unsigned char type;
diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c b/fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c
index 51651314b7a6..dcfb2e5fa88e 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/scatterlist.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/hex.h>
#include "ecryptfs_kernel.h"
/*
@@ -713,7 +714,7 @@ ecryptfs_write_tag_70_packet(char *dest, size_t *remaining_bytes,
goto out_free_unlock;
}
s->i += s->packet_size_len;
- ecryptfs_from_hex(&dest[s->i],
+ hex2bin((u8 *)&dest[s->i],
mount_crypt_stat->global_default_fnek_sig,
ECRYPTFS_SIG_SIZE);
s->i += ECRYPTFS_SIG_SIZE;
@@ -2015,7 +2016,7 @@ write_tag_1_packet(char *dest, size_t *remaining_bytes,
int rc = 0;
(*packet_size) = 0;
- ecryptfs_from_hex(key_rec->sig, auth_tok->token.private_key.signature,
+ hex2bin((u8 *)key_rec->sig, auth_tok->token.private_key.signature,
ECRYPTFS_SIG_SIZE);
encrypted_session_key_valid = 0;
for (i = 0; i < crypt_stat->key_size; i++)
@@ -2179,7 +2180,7 @@ write_tag_3_packet(char *dest, size_t *remaining_bytes,
int rc = 0;
(*packet_size) = 0;
- ecryptfs_from_hex(key_rec->sig, auth_tok->token.password.signature,
+ hex2bin((u8 *)key_rec->sig, auth_tok->token.password.signature,
ECRYPTFS_SIG_SIZE);
rc = ecryptfs_get_tfm_and_mutex_for_cipher_name(&tfm, &tfm_mutex,
crypt_stat->cipher);
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-29 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-29 19:45 Drif Abdelmalek Mohamed Said [this message]
2026-09-10 11:17 ` DRIF ABDELMALEK MOHAMED SAID
2026-10-13 5:45 ` Tyler Hicks
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