This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled lib/ucs2_string: Add ucs2 -> utf8 helper functions to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: lib-ucs2_string-add-ucs2-utf8-helper-functions.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 73500267c930baadadb0d02284909731baf151f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:48:11 -0500 Subject: lib/ucs2_string: Add ucs2 -> utf8 helper functions From: Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 73500267c930baadadb0d02284909731baf151f7 upstream. This adds ucs2_utf8size(), which tells us how big our ucs2 string is in bytes, and ucs2_as_utf8, which translates from ucs2 to utf8.. Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/ucs2_string.h | 4 ++ lib/ucs2_string.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+) --- a/include/linux/ucs2_string.h +++ b/include/linux/ucs2_string.h @@ -11,4 +11,8 @@ unsigned long ucs2_strlen(const ucs2_cha unsigned long ucs2_strsize(const ucs2_char_t *data, unsigned long maxlength); 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(u8 *dest, const ucs2_char_t *src, + unsigned long maxlength); + #endif /* _LINUX_UCS2_STRING_H_ */ --- a/lib/ucs2_string.c +++ b/lib/ucs2_string.c @@ -49,3 +49,65 @@ ucs2_strncmp(const ucs2_char_t *a, const } } EXPORT_SYMBOL(ucs2_strncmp); + +unsigned long +ucs2_utf8size(const ucs2_char_t *src) +{ + unsigned long i; + unsigned long j = 0; + + for (i = 0; i < ucs2_strlen(src); i++) { + u16 c = src[i]; + + if (c > 0x800) + j += 3; + else if (c > 0x80) + j += 2; + else + j += 1; + } + + return j; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ucs2_utf8size); + +/* + * copy at most maxlength bytes of whole utf8 characters to dest from the + * ucs2 string src. + * + * The return value is the number of characters copied, not including the + * final NUL character. + */ +unsigned long +ucs2_as_utf8(u8 *dest, const ucs2_char_t *src, 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]; + + if (c > 0x800) { + if (maxlength < 3) + break; + maxlength -= 3; + dest[j++] = 0xe0 | (c & 0xf000) >> 12; + dest[j++] = 0x80 | (c & 0x0fc0) >> 8; + dest[j++] = 0x80 | (c & 0x003f); + } else if (c > 0x80) { + if (maxlength < 2) + break; + maxlength -= 2; + dest[j++] = 0xc0 | (c & 0xfe0) >> 5; + dest[j++] = 0x80 | (c & 0x01f); + } else { + maxlength -= 1; + dest[j++] = c & 0x7f; + } + } + if (maxlength) + dest[j] = '\0'; + return j; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ucs2_as_utf8); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pjones@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/lib-ucs2_string-add-ucs2-utf8-helper-functions.patch queue-3.14/lib-ucs2_string-correct-ucs2-utf8-conversion.patch queue-3.14/efi-do-variable-name-validation-tests-in-utf8.patch queue-3.14/efi-make-efivarfs-entries-immutable-by-default.patch queue-3.14/efi-add-pstore-variables-to-the-deletion-whitelist.patch queue-3.14/efi-make-our-variable-validation-list-include-the-guid.patch queue-3.14/efi-use-ucs2_as_utf8-in-efivarfs-instead-of-open-coding-a-bad-version.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html