linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v3 04/12] lib/ext2fs: Implement NLS support

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Date:   Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:54:59 -0500
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
Cc:     kernel@...labora.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/12] lib/ext2fs: Implement NLS support

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 05:19:41PM -0500, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> +static int ascii_casefold(const struct nls_table *table,
> +			  const unsigned char *str, size_t len,
> +			  unsigned char *dest, size_t dlen)
> +{
> +	unsigned i;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
> +		dest[i] = charset_toupper(table, str[i]);
> +
> +	return len;
> +}
> +
> +static int ascii_normalize(const struct nls_table *table,
> +			   const unsigned char *str, size_t len,
> +			   unsigned char *dest, size_t dlen)
> +{
> +	memcpy(dest, str, len);
> +	return len;
> +}

Shouldn't these two functions at least check to make sure dlen >= len
and return an error if not?

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