[PATCH v3 22/60] arm64: idreg-override: Avoid kstrtou64() to parse a single hex digit

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at kernel.org
Tue Mar 7 06:04:44 PST 2023


All ID register value overrides are =0 with the exception of the nokaslr
pseudo feature which uses =1. In order to remove the dependency on
kstrtou64(), which is part of the core kernel and no longer usable once
we move idreg-override into the early mini C runtime, let's just parse a
single hex digit (with optional leading 0x) and set the output value
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/idreg-override.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/idreg-override.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/idreg-override.c
index 58c02fe20e1050b4..758f0e86e2bd2a34 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/idreg-override.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/idreg-override.c
@@ -195,6 +195,20 @@ static const struct {
 	{ "nokaslr",			"arm64_sw.nokaslr=1" },
 };
 
+static int __init parse_hexdigit(const char *p, u64 *v)
+{
+	// skip "0x" if it comes next
+	if (p[0] == '0' && tolower(p[1]) == 'x')
+		p += 2;
+
+	// check whether the RHS is a single hex digit
+	if (!isxdigit(p[0]) || (p[1] && !isspace(p[1])))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	*v = tolower(*p) - (isdigit(*p) ? '0' : 'a' - 10);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int __init find_field(const char *cmdline, char *opt, int len,
 			     const struct ftr_set_desc *reg, int f, u64 *v)
 {
@@ -208,7 +222,7 @@ static int __init find_field(const char *cmdline, char *opt, int len,
 	if (memcmp(cmdline, opt, len))
 		return -1;
 
-	return kstrtou64(cmdline + len, 0, v);
+	return parse_hexdigit(cmdline + len, v);
 }
 
 static void __init match_options(const char *cmdline)
-- 
2.39.2




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