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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>
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/9] lib/ucs2_string: Split out ucs2_as_utf8_l() taking a separate limit
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:46:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260916144647.2651379-14-ardb+git@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260916144647.2651379-11-ardb+git@google.com>

From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

ucs2_as_utf8() 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           | 15 ++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 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..6c067b4280b9 100644
--- a/lib/ucs2_string.c
+++ b/lib/ucs2_string.c
@@ -125,18 +125,19 @@ ucs2_utf8size(const ucs2_char_t *src)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ucs2_utf8size);
 
 /*
- * copy at most maxlength bytes of whole utf8 characters to dest from the
- * ucs2 string src.
+ * Copy at most @limit whole utf8 characters to @dest from the ucs2 string
+ * @src, using no more than @maxlength bytes of buffer space.
  *
- * The return value is the number of characters copied, not including the
- * final NUL character.
+ * The return value is the number of bytes copied, not including the final NUL
+ * character. No NUL character will be appended if the output length equals
+ * @maxlength.
  */
 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 +164,7 @@ 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");
-- 
2.55.0.1032.g73a4cd73de-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-16 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-16 14:46 [PATCH v3 0/9] efi/libstub: Avoid UTF-16 conversion busywork Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-16 14:46 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] lib/ucs2_string: Drop arbitrary input size limit and associated WARN() Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-16 14:46 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] lib/ucs2_string: Suppress modinfo when __DISABLE_EXPORTS is set Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-16 14:46 ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2026-09-16 14:46 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] efi/libstub: Use ucs2_string library for UTF-16 to UTF-8 conversion Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-16 14:46 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] efi/libstub: Avoid efi_puts() for compile time constant strings Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-16 14:46 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] efi/libstub: Output UTF-16 directly from vsnprintf() Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-16 14:46 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] efi/libstub: Add support for printing human readable GUIDs Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-16 14:46 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] efi/libstub: Add efi_snprintf() to construct wide strings Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-16 14:46 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] efi/libstub: add initial Boot Loader Interface support Ard Biesheuvel
2026-09-17  6:21 ` [PATCH v3 0/9] efi/libstub: Avoid UTF-16 conversion busywork Vincent Mailhol
2026-09-17  9:37   ` Ard Biesheuvel

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