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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 5/5] target: check hex2bin result
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Mimi Zohar wrote:
> Now that hex2bin does error checking, on error add debugging error msg.

We are waiting for response from Nicholas, aren't we?
Quotuing from http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/linux-security-module/msg11570.html :
| I was assuming that, by adding error check, hex2bin() will leave the buffer
| uninitialized in case of bad input because hex2bin() user in Linux 3.0 can
| return errors. Now you are a new user of hex2bin() but your code cannot return
| errors. Nicholas, how do you want to handle bad input?


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