Import osmo_{encode,decode}_big_endian() from openbsc
diff --git a/src/utils.c b/src/utils.c
index 3dc0693..1c2fc32 100644
--- a/src/utils.c
+++ b/src/utils.c
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
#include <stdio.h>
#include <osmocom/core/utils.h>
+#include <osmocom/core/bit64gen.h>
+
/*! \addtogroup utils
* @{
@@ -257,4 +259,64 @@
}
#endif /* HAVE_CTYPE_H */
+/*! \brief Wishful thinking to generate a constant time compare
+ * \param[in] exp Expected data
+ * \param[in] rel Comparison value
+ * \param[in] count Number of bytes to compare
+ * \returns 1 in case \a exp equals \a rel; zero otherwise
+ *
+ * Compare count bytes of exp to rel. Return 0 if they are identical, 1
+ * otherwise. Do not return a mismatch on the first mismatching byte,
+ * but always compare all bytes, regardless. The idea is that the amount of
+ * matching bytes cannot be inferred from the time the comparison took. */
+int osmo_constant_time_cmp(const uint8_t *exp, const uint8_t *rel, const int count)
+{
+ int x = 0, i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < count; ++i)
+ x |= exp[i] ^ rel[i];
+
+ /* if x is zero, all data was identical */
+ return x? 1 : 0;
+}
+
+/*! \brief Generic retrieval of 1..8 bytes as big-endian uint64_t
+ * \param[in] data Input data as byte-array
+ * \param[in] data_len Length of \a data in octets
+ * \returns uint64_t of \a data interpreted as big-endian
+ *
+ * This is like osmo_load64be_ext, except that if data_len is less than
+ * sizeof(uint64_t), the data is interpreted as the least significant bytes
+ * (osmo_load64be_ext loads them as the most significant bytes into the
+ * returned uint64_t). In this way, any integer size up to 64 bits can be
+ * decoded conveniently by using sizeof(), without the need to call specific
+ * numbered functions (osmo_load16, 32, ...). */
+uint64_t osmo_decode_big_endian(const uint8_t *data, size_t data_len)
+{
+ uint64_t value = 0;
+
+ while (data_len > 0) {
+ value = (value << 8) + *data;
+ data += 1;
+ data_len -= 1;
+ }
+
+ return value;
+}
+
+/*! \brief Generic big-endian encoding of big endian number up to 64bit
+ * \param[in] value unsigned integer value to be stored
+ * \param[in] data_len number of octets
+ * \returns static buffer containing big-endian stored value
+ *
+ * This is like osmo_store64be_ext, except that this returns a static buffer of
+ * the result (for convenience, but not threadsafe). If data_len is less than
+ * sizeof(uint64_t), only the least significant bytes of value are encoded. */
+uint8_t *osmo_encode_big_endian(uint64_t value, size_t data_len)
+{
+ static uint8_t buf[sizeof(uint64_t)];
+ OSMO_ASSERT(data_len <= ARRAY_SIZE(buf));
+ osmo_store64be_ext(value, buf, data_len);
+ return buf;
+}
/*! @} */