Re: [PATCH] lib/ucs2_string: Correct ucs2 -> utf8 conversion

From: Matt Fleming
Date: Mon Feb 15 2016 - 06:12:57 EST


(Cc'ing Laszlo and linux-efi)

On Fri, 12 Feb, at 11:13:33PM, Jason Andryuk wrote:
> The comparisons should be >= since 0x800 and 0x80 require an additional bit
> to store.
>
> For the 3 byte case, the existing shift would drop off 2 more bits than
> intended.
>
> For the 2 byte case, there should be 5 bits bits in byte 1, and 6 bits in
> byte 2.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Tested in user space, but not in the kernel. Conversions now match
> python's unicode conversions.
>
> lib/ucs2_string.c | 14 +++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Thanks Jason. Peter, Laszlo, any comments?

> diff --git a/lib/ucs2_string.c b/lib/ucs2_string.c
> index 17dd74e..f0b323a 100644
> --- a/lib/ucs2_string.c
> +++ b/lib/ucs2_string.c
> @@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ ucs2_utf8size(const ucs2_char_t *src)
> for (i = 0; i < ucs2_strlen(src); i++) {
> u16 c = src[i];
>
> - if (c > 0x800)
> + if (c >= 0x800)
> j += 3;
> - else if (c > 0x80)
> + else if (c >= 0x80)
> j += 2;
> else
> j += 1;
> @@ -88,19 +88,19 @@ ucs2_as_utf8(u8 *dest, const ucs2_char_t *src, unsigned long maxlength)
> for (i = 0; maxlength && i < limit; i++) {
> u16 c = src[i];
>
> - if (c > 0x800) {
> + 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 & 0x0fc0) >> 6;
> dest[j++] = 0x80 | (c & 0x003f);
> - } else if (c > 0x80) {
> + } else if (c >= 0x80) {
> if (maxlength < 2)
> break;
> maxlength -= 2;
> - dest[j++] = 0xc0 | (c & 0xfe0) >> 5;
> - dest[j++] = 0x80 | (c & 0x01f);
> + dest[j++] = 0xc0 | (c & 0x7c0) >> 6;
> + dest[j++] = 0x80 | (c & 0x03f);
> } else {
> maxlength -= 1;
> dest[j++] = c & 0x7f;
> --
> 2.4.3
>