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svn:author
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kevans
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svn:date
V 27
2020-04-15T03:59:26.338689Z
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svn:log
V 776
kern uuid: break format validation out into a separate KPI

This new KPI, validate_uuid, strictly validates the formatting of the input
UUID and, optionally, populates a given struct uuid.

As noted in the header, the key differences are that the new KPI won't
recognize an empty string as a nil UUID and it won't do any kind of semantic
validation on it. Also key is that populating a struct uuid is optional, so
the caller doesn't necessarily need to allocate a bogus one on the stack
just to validate the string.

This KPI has specifically been broken out in support of D24288, which will
preload /etc/hostid in loader so that early boot hostuuid users (e.g.
anything that calls ether_gen_addr) can have a valid hostuuid to work with
once it's been stashed in /etc/hostid.

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