From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+git@google.com>
To: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>,
x86@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 04/10] lib/ucs2_string: Split out ucs2_as_utf8_l() taking a separate limit
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 13:55:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260909115530.1924665-16-ardb+git@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260909115530.1924665-12-ardb+git@google.com>
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
ucs2_as_utf() takes a maxlength argument, which specifies how many bytes
the function is permitted to store into the destination buffer.
The same value is used as an upper bound for the ucs2_strnlen()
invocation, which is reasonable in the general case, as each UCS-2
character produces at least one byte of UTF-8 output, and so there is
never a need to process more than 'maxlength' UCS-2 characters.
However, if the UCS-2 string is not NUL terminated, ucs2_strnlen() may
read past the end of the buffer if 'maxlength' is set to a high value.
Current callers pass UCS-2 strings that are expected to be NUL
terminated, but for processing the load options in the EFI stub, a
version is needed that takes a separate limit argument. So split that
off from the current implementation.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
---
include/linux/ucs2_string.h | 11 ++++++++++-
lib/ucs2_string.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/ucs2_string.h b/include/linux/ucs2_string.h
index c499ae809c7d..74f23ca5a967 100644
--- a/include/linux/ucs2_string.h
+++ b/include/linux/ucs2_string.h
@@ -14,7 +14,16 @@ ssize_t ucs2_strscpy(ucs2_char_t *dst, const ucs2_char_t *src, size_t count);
int ucs2_strncmp(const ucs2_char_t *a, const ucs2_char_t *b, size_t len);
unsigned long ucs2_utf8size(const ucs2_char_t *src);
+unsigned long
+ucs2_as_utf8_l(u8 *dest, const ucs2_char_t *src, unsigned long limit,
+ unsigned long maxlength);
+
+static inline
unsigned long ucs2_as_utf8(u8 *dest, const ucs2_char_t *src,
- unsigned long maxlength);
+ unsigned long maxlength)
+{
+ return ucs2_as_utf8_l(dest, src, ucs2_strnlen(src, maxlength),
+ maxlength);
+}
#endif /* _LINUX_UCS2_STRING_H_ */
diff --git a/lib/ucs2_string.c b/lib/ucs2_string.c
index f75fb4f7961a..2df9bef79eea 100644
--- a/lib/ucs2_string.c
+++ b/lib/ucs2_string.c
@@ -132,11 +132,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ucs2_utf8size);
* final NUL character.
*/
unsigned long
-ucs2_as_utf8(u8 *dest, const ucs2_char_t *src, unsigned long maxlength)
+ucs2_as_utf8_l(u8 *dest, const ucs2_char_t *src, unsigned long limit,
+ unsigned long maxlength)
{
unsigned int i;
unsigned long j = 0;
- unsigned long limit = ucs2_strnlen(src, maxlength);
for (i = 0; maxlength && i < limit; i++) {
u16 c = src[i];
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ ucs2_as_utf8(u8 *dest, const ucs2_char_t *src, unsigned long maxlength)
dest[j] = '\0';
return j;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(ucs2_as_utf8);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ucs2_as_utf8_l);
#ifndef __DISABLE_EXPORTS
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("UCS2 string handling");
--
2.55.0.1003.g10538fe699-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-09 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-09 11:55 [PATCH v2 00/10] efi/libstub: Avoid UTF-16 conversion busywork Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-09 11:55 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] x86/boot: Drop pointless re-implementation of panic() Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-09 19:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-09 20:43 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-10 13:12 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-09-11 7:32 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-09 11:55 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] lib/ucs2_string: Drop arbitrary input size limit and associated WARN() Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-09 11:55 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] lib/ucs2_string: Suppress modinfo when __DISABLE_EXPORTS is set Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-09 11:55 ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2026-09-09 11:55 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] efi/libstub: Use ucs2_string library for UTF-16 to UTF-8 conversion Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-09 11:55 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] efi/libstub: Avoid efi_puts() for compile time constant strings Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-09 11:55 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] efi/libstub: Output UTF-16 directly from vsnprintf() Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-09 11:55 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] efi/libstub: Add support for printing human readable GUIDs Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-09 11:55 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] efi/libstub: Add efi_snprintf() to construct wide strings Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-09 11:55 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] efi/libstub: add initial Boot Loader Interface support Ard Biesheuvel
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