Thread (16 messages) 16 messages, 2 authors, 2018-12-01

Re: [PATCH v3 04/12] lib/ext2fs: Implement NLS support

From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: 2018-12-01 03:04:48

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 05:19:41PM -0500, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
+static int ascii_casefold(const struct nls_table *table,
+			  const unsigned char *str, size_t len,
+			  unsigned char *dest, size_t dlen)
+{
+	unsigned i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
+		dest[i] = charset_toupper(table, str[i]);
+
+	return len;
+}
+
+static int ascii_normalize(const struct nls_table *table,
+			   const unsigned char *str, size_t len,
+			   unsigned char *dest, size_t dlen)
+{
+	memcpy(dest, str, len);
+	return len;
+}
Shouldn't these two functions at least check to make sure dlen >= len
and return an error if not?

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