util: Helper for formatting MAC addresses

There are a couple of places where we somewhat messily open code formatting
an Ethernet like MAC address for display.  Add an eth_ntop() helper for
this.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/util.c b/util.c
index 0b41404..7cb2c10 100644
--- a/util.c
+++ b/util.c
@@ -676,6 +676,25 @@ const char *sockaddr_ntop(const void *sa, char *dst, socklen_t size)
 	return dst;
 }
 
+/** eth_ntop() - Convert an Ethernet MAC address to text format
+ * @mac:	MAC address
+ * @dst:	Output buffer, minimum ETH_ADDRSTRLEN bytes
+ * @size:	Size of buffer at @dst
+ *
+ * Return: On success, a non-null pointer to @dst, NULL on failure
+ */
+const char *eth_ntop(const unsigned char *mac, char *dst, size_t size)
+{
+	int len;
+
+	len = snprintf(dst, size, "%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x",
+		       mac[0], mac[1], mac[2], mac[3], mac[4], mac[5]);
+	if (len < 0 || (size_t)len >= size)
+		return NULL;
+
+	return dst;
+}
+
 /** str_ee_origin() - Convert socket extended error origin to a string
  * @ee:		Socket extended error structure
  *