strtoul() only modifies errno on overflow, so if errno is not zero
before calling the function its value is preserved and makes the
function fail for valid inputs; initialize it.

Signed-off-by: Beniamino Galvani <bgalv...@redhat.com>
---
 lib/utils.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/lib/utils.c b/lib/utils.c
index 70e85b7..7dceeb5 100644
--- a/lib/utils.c
+++ b/lib/utils.c
@@ -924,6 +924,7 @@ __u8 *hexstring_a2n(const char *str, __u8 *buf, int blen, 
unsigned int *len)
 
                strncpy(tmpstr, str, 2);
                tmpstr[2] = '\0';
+               errno = 0;
                tmp = strtoul(tmpstr, &endptr, 16);
                if (errno != 0 || tmp > 0xFF || *endptr != '\0')
                        return NULL;
-- 
2.5.5

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