Re: [PATCH 2/5] efi: Use ucs2_as_utf8 in efivarfs instead of open coding a bad version

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On February 12, 2016 3:27:09 AM PST, Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> wrote:
>From: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
>
>Translate EFI's UCS-2 variable names to UTF-8 instead of just assuming
>all variable names fit in ASCII.
>
>Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
>Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@coreos.com>
>Tested-by: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@suse.com>
>Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
>---
> drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c | 30 +++++++++++-------------------
> fs/efivarfs/super.c            |  7 +++----
> 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c
>b/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c
>index 756eca8c4cf8..f4ff8abc5f3e 100644
>--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c
>+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c
>@@ -540,38 +540,30 @@ static ssize_t efivar_delete(struct file *filp,
>struct kobject *kobj,
> static int
> efivar_create_sysfs_entry(struct efivar_entry *new_var)
> {
>-	int i, short_name_size;
>+	int short_name_size;
> 	char *short_name;
>-	unsigned long variable_name_size;
>-	efi_char16_t *variable_name;
>+	unsigned long utf8_name_size;
>+	efi_char16_t *variable_name = new_var->var.VariableName;
> 	int ret;
> 
>-	variable_name = new_var->var.VariableName;
>-	variable_name_size = ucs2_strlen(variable_name) *
>sizeof(efi_char16_t);
>-
> 	/*
>-	 * Length of the variable bytes in ASCII, plus the '-' separator,
>+	 * Length of the variable bytes in UTF8, plus the '-' separator,
> 	 * plus the GUID, plus trailing NUL
> 	 */
>-	short_name_size = variable_name_size / sizeof(efi_char16_t)
>-				+ 1 + EFI_VARIABLE_GUID_LEN + 1;
>-
>-	short_name = kzalloc(short_name_size, GFP_KERNEL);
>+	utf8_name_size = ucs2_utf8size(variable_name);
>+	short_name_size = utf8_name_size + 1 + EFI_VARIABLE_GUID_LEN + 1;
> 
>+	short_name = kmalloc(short_name_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> 	if (!short_name)
> 		return -ENOMEM;
> 
>-	/* Convert Unicode to normal chars (assume top bits are 0),
>-	   ala UTF-8 */
>-	for (i=0; i < (int)(variable_name_size / sizeof(efi_char16_t)); i++)
>{
>-		short_name[i] = variable_name[i] & 0xFF;
>-	}
>+	ucs2_as_utf8(short_name, variable_name, short_name_size);
>+
> 	/* This is ugly, but necessary to separate one vendor's
> 	   private variables from another's.         */
>-
>-	*(short_name + strlen(short_name)) = '-';
>+	short_name[utf8_name_size] = '-';
> 	efi_guid_to_str(&new_var->var.VendorGuid,
>-			 short_name + strlen(short_name));
>+			 short_name + utf8_name_size + 1);
> 
> 	new_var->kobj.kset = efivars_kset;
> 
>diff --git a/fs/efivarfs/super.c b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
>index b8a564f29107..8651ac28ec0d 100644
>--- a/fs/efivarfs/super.c
>+++ b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
>@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ static int efivarfs_callback(efi_char16_t *name16,
>efi_guid_t vendor,
> 	struct dentry *dentry, *root = sb->s_root;
> 	unsigned long size = 0;
> 	char *name;
>-	int len, i;
>+	int len;
> 	int err = -ENOMEM;
> 
> 	entry = kzalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_KERNEL);
>@@ -128,15 +128,14 @@ static int efivarfs_callback(efi_char16_t
>*name16, efi_guid_t vendor,
> 	memcpy(entry->var.VariableName, name16, name_size);
> 	memcpy(&(entry->var.VendorGuid), &vendor, sizeof(efi_guid_t));
> 
>-	len = ucs2_strlen(entry->var.VariableName);
>+	len = ucs2_utf8size(entry->var.VariableName);
> 
> 	/* name, plus '-', plus GUID, plus NUL*/
> 	name = kmalloc(len + 1 + EFI_VARIABLE_GUID_LEN + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> 	if (!name)
> 		goto fail;
> 
>-	for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
>-		name[i] = entry->var.VariableName[i] & 0xFF;
>+	ucs2_as_utf8(name, entry->var.VariableName, len);
> 
> 	name[len] = '-';
> 

However, I think we should treat this "ucs2" as utf16, because sooner or later someone will enter utf16 characters.
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