linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] Drivers: hv: Support the newly introduced KVP messages in the driver

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Date:	Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:45:56 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org, virtualization@...ts.osdl.org,
	ohering@...e.com, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Drivers: hv: Support the newly introduced KVP
 messages in the driver

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 05:48:43PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
>  	/*
>  	 * The windows host expects the key/value pair to be encoded
>  	 * in utf16.
>  	 */
>  	keylen = utf8s_to_utf16s(key_name, strlen(key_name), UTF16_HOST_ENDIAN,
> -				(wchar_t *) kvp_data->data.key,
> +				(wchar_t *) kvp_data->key,
>  				HV_KVP_EXCHANGE_MAX_KEY_SIZE / 2);
> -	kvp_data->data.key_size = 2*(keylen + 1); /* utf16 encoding */
> +	kvp_data->key_size = 2*(keylen + 1); /* utf16 encoding */
> +

I feel like a jerk for asking this, but is the output length correct
here?  It seems like we could go over again.  Also utf8s_to_utf16s()
can return negative error codes, why do we ignore those?

regards,
dan carpenter


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