+/*
+ * Convert an octet to two hex digits.
+ *
+ * Coverity appears either:
+ *
+ * not to believe the C standard when it asserts that a uint8_t is
+ * exactly 8 bits in size;
+ *
+ * not to believe that an unsigned type of exactly 8 bits has a value
+ * in the range of 0 to 255;
+ *
+ * not to believe that, for a range of unsigned values, if you shift
+ * one of those values right by 4 bits, the maximum result value is
+ * the maximum value shifted right by 4 bits, with no stray 1's shifted
+ * in;
+ *
+ * not to believe that 255 >> 4 is 15;
+ *
+ * so it gets upset that we're taking a "tainted" unsigned value, shifting
+ * it right 4 bits, and using it as an index into a 16-element array.
+ *
+ * So we do a stupid pointless masking of the result of the shift with
+ * 0xf, to hammer the point home to Coverity.
+ */
+static inline char *
+octet_to_hex(char *cp, uint8_t octet)
+{
+ *cp++ = hex[(octet >> 4) & 0xf];
+ *cp++ = hex[(octet >> 0) & 0xf];
+ return (cp);
+}
+