From 4940fc889e1e63667a15243028ddcd84d471cd8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Dobriyan Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 23:00:07 +0000 Subject: net: add mac_pton() for parsing MAC address mac_pton() parses MAC address in form XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX and only in that form. mac_pton() doesn't dirty result until it's sure string representation is valid. mac_pton() doesn't care about characters _after_ last octet, it's up to caller to deal with it. mac_pton() diverges from 0/-E return value convention. Target usage: if (!mac_pton(str, whatever->mac)) return -EINVAL; /* ->mac being u8 [ETH_ALEN] is filled at this point. */ /* optionally check str[3 * ETH_ALEN - 1] for termination */ Use mac_pton() in pktgen and netconsole for start. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/utils.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) (limited to 'net/core/utils.c') diff --git a/net/core/utils.c b/net/core/utils.c index 5fea0ab21902..2012bc797f9c 100644 --- a/net/core/utils.c +++ b/net/core/utils.c @@ -296,3 +296,27 @@ void inet_proto_csum_replace4(__sum16 *sum, struct sk_buff *skb, csum_unfold(*sum))); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(inet_proto_csum_replace4); + +int mac_pton(const char *s, u8 *mac) +{ + int i; + + /* XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX */ + if (strlen(s) < 3 * ETH_ALEN - 1) + return 0; + + /* Don't dirty result unless string is valid MAC. */ + for (i = 0; i < ETH_ALEN; i++) { + if (!strchr("0123456789abcdefABCDEF", s[i * 3])) + return 0; + if (!strchr("0123456789abcdefABCDEF", s[i * 3 + 1])) + return 0; + if (i != ETH_ALEN - 1 && s[i * 3 + 2] != ':') + return 0; + } + for (i = 0; i < ETH_ALEN; i++) { + mac[i] = (hex_to_bin(s[i * 3]) << 4) | hex_to_bin(s[i * 3 + 1]); + } + return 1; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(mac_pton); -- cgit v1.2.1