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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>,
	Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
Subject: Re: vfat: Broken case-insensitive support for UTF-8
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 23:08:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200119230809.GW8904@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200119221455.bac7dc55g56q2l4r@pali>

On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 11:14:55PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:

> So when UTF-8 on VFS for VFAT is enabled, then for VFS <--> VFAT
> conversion are used utf16s_to_utf8s() and utf8s_to_utf16s() functions.
> But in fat_name_match(), vfat_hashi() and vfat_cmpi() functions is used
> NLS table (default iso8859-1) with nls_strnicmp() and nls_tolower().
> 
> Which means that fat_name_match(), vfat_hashi() and vfat_cmpi() are
> broken for vfat in UTF-8 mode.
> 
> I was thinking how to fix it, and the only possible way is to write a
> uni_tolower() function which takes one Unicode code point and returns
> lowercase of input's Unicode code point. We cannot do any Unicode
> normalization as VFAT specification does not say anything about it and
> MS reference fastfat.sys implementation does not do it neither.

Then how can that possibly be broken?  If it matches the native behaviour,
that's it.

> As you can see lowercase 'd' and uppercase 'D' are same, but lowercase
> 'č' and uppercase 'Č' are not same. This is because 'č' is two bytes
> 0xc4 0x8d sequence and comparing is done by Latin1 table. 0xc4 is in
> Latin 'Ä' which is already in uppercase. 0x8d is control char so is not
> changed by tolower/toupper function.

Again, who the hell cares?  Does the behaviour match how Windows handles
that thing?  "Case" is not something well-defined; the only definition
is "whatever weird crap does the native implementation choose to do".
That's the only reason to support that garbage at all...

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-19 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-19 22:14 vfat: Broken case-insensitive support for UTF-8 Pali Rohár
2020-01-19 23:08 ` Al Viro [this message]
2020-01-19 23:33   ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-20  0:09     ` Al Viro
2020-01-20 11:19       ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-20  4:04 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2020-01-20  7:30   ` Al Viro
2020-01-20  7:45     ` Al Viro
2020-01-20  8:07       ` oopsably broken case-insensitive support in ext4 and f2fs (Re: vfat: Broken case-insensitive support for UTF-8) Al Viro
2020-01-20 19:35         ` Al Viro
2020-01-24  4:29           ` Eric Biggers
2020-01-24 17:47             ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-24 18:03               ` Jaegeuk Kim
2020-01-24 18:45                 ` Eric Biggers
2020-01-20 11:04   ` vfat: Broken case-insensitive support for UTF-8 Pali Rohár
2020-01-20 12:07     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2020-01-20 21:40       ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-20 22:46         ` Al Viro
2020-01-20 23:57           ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-21  0:07             ` Al Viro
2020-01-21 20:34               ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-21 21:36                 ` Al Viro
2020-01-21 22:14                   ` Al Viro
2020-01-21 22:46                     ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-26 23:08                 ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-21 12:43             ` David Laight
2020-01-22  0:25         ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-01-20 15:07     ` David Laight
2020-01-20 15:20       ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-20 15:47         ` David Laight
2020-01-20 16:12           ` Al Viro
2020-01-20 16:51             ` David Laight
2020-01-20 16:27           ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-20 16:43             ` David Laight
2020-01-20 16:56               ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-20 17:37       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-20 17:32   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-20 17:56     ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-21  3:52     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2020-01-21 11:00       ` Pali Rohár
2020-01-21 12:26         ` OGAWA Hirofumi

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