fault-injection: enhance failcmd to exit on non-hex address input
The failcmd.sh script in the fault-injection toolkit does not currently validate whether the provided address is in hexadecimal format. This can lead to silent failures if the address is sourced from places like `/proc/kallsyms`, which omits the '0x' prefix, potentially causing users to operate under incorrect assumptions. Introduce a new function, `exit_if_not_hex`, which checks the format of the provided address and exits with an error message if the address is not a valid hexadecimal number. This enhancement prevents users from running the command with improperly formatted addresses, thus improving the robustness and usability of the failcmd tool. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240729084512.3349928-1-leitao@debian.orgSigned-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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