In some cases caller would like to use error code directly without
shadowing.
-EINVAL feels a rightful code to return in case of error in hex2bin().
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com>
---
lib/hexdump.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/hexdump.c b/lib/hexdump.c
index 992457b1284c..81b70ed37209 100644
--- a/lib/hexdump.c
+++ b/lib/hexdump.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
+#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <asm/unaligned.h>
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(hex_to_bin);
* @src: ascii hexadecimal string
* @count: result length
*
- * Return 0 on success, -1 in case of bad input.
+ * Return 0 on success, -EINVAL in case of bad input.
*/
int hex2bin(u8 *dst, const char *src, size_t count)
{
@@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ int hex2bin(u8 *dst, const char *src, size_t count)
int lo = hex_to_bin(*src++);
if ((hi < 0) || (lo < 0))
- return -1;
+ return -EINVAL;
*dst++ = (hi << 4) | lo;
}
--
2.13.2
