> utf16s_to_utf8s does not NULL terminate the output string. For us to be able
> to add a NULL character when utf16s_to_utf8s returns, we need to make
> sure that there is space for such NULL character at the end of the output
> buffer. We can achieve this by passing an output buffer size to
> utf16s_to_utf8s that is one character less than what we allocated.
>
> Other call sites of utf16s_to_utf8s appear to be using the same technique
> where they artificially reduce the buffer size by one to leave space for a
> NULL character or line feed character.
>
> Fixes: 4b828fe156a6 ("scsi: ufs: revamp string descriptor reading")
I think this code goes back to commit b573d484e4ff (scsi: ufs: add support to read device and string descriptors)
Reviewed-by: Avri Altman <avri.altman@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Mars Cheng <marscheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Yen-lin Lai <yenlinlai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c b/drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c index
> 8382e8cfa414..5767642982c1 100644
> --- a/drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c
> +++ b/drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c
> @@ -3632,7 +3632,7 @@ int ufshcd_read_string_desc(struct ufs_hba *hba,
> u8 desc_index,
> */
> ret = utf16s_to_utf8s(uc_str->uc,
> uc_str->len - QUERY_DESC_HDR_SIZE,
> - UTF16_BIG_ENDIAN, str, ascii_len);
> + UTF16_BIG_ENDIAN, str, ascii_len -
> + 1);
>
> /* replace non-printable or non-ASCII characters with spaces */
> for (i = 0; i < ret; i++)
> --
> 2.42.0.655.g421f12c284-goog
