common: Minor change of hex2str to allow for embedded nul.

* common/convert.c (hex2str): Set ERRNO.  Return adjusted COUNT.
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hex2str is only used at one place for in-place converting an hex
encoded passphrase.  This change does not affect this use.  The change
is however useful to use the function for in-place conversion of
arbitrary hex encoded strings.

Take care for in-place conversion of a hex string encoding binary data
you need to use it this way:

  if (hex2str (string, string, strlen (string) + 1, &length)
     oops ("probably out of memory but see ERRNO");
  for (i=0; i < length; i++)
     foo (string[i));

Note that strlen() + 1.

Signed-off-by: Werner Koch <[email protected]>

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