linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v4 4/9] lib/ext2fs: Implement NLS support

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Date:   Mon, 22 Apr 2019 14:17:18 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
Cc:     tytso@....edu, kernel@...labora.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/9] lib/ext2fs: Implement NLS support

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 07:39:05PM -0500, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> From: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.co.uk>
> 
> Basic NLS support is required in e2fsprogs because of fsck, which
> needsto calculate dx hashes for encoding aware filesystems.  this patch
> implements this infrastructure as well as ascii support.
> 
> We don't need to do all the dance of versioning as we do in the kernel,
> because we know before-hand which encodings and versions we
> support (those we know how to store in the sb), so it is simpler just to
> create static tables.
> 
> Changes since v3:
>   - Prevent buffer overflow during normalization/casefold.
>   - Signal invalid sequences and let caller handle it.
> 
[...]
> diff --git a/lib/ext2fs/nls_ascii.c b/lib/ext2fs/nls_ascii.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..5d513df404c1
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/lib/ext2fs/nls_ascii.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
> +#include "nls.h"
> +
> +#include <errno.h>
> +#include <string.h>
> +
> +
> +static unsigned char charset_tolower(const struct nls_table *table,
> +				     unsigned int c)
> +{
> +	if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z')
> +		return (c | 0x20);
> +	return c;
> +}

Is charset_tolower() supposed to be used for something?  It's never called.

- Eric