Patch "lib/ucs2_string: Add ucs2 -> utf8 helper functions" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    lib/ucs2_string: Add ucs2 -> utf8 helper functions

to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     lib-ucs2_string-add-ucs2-utf8-helper-functions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 73500267c930baadadb0d02284909731baf151f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:48:11 -0500
Subject: lib/ucs2_string: Add ucs2 -> utf8 helper functions

From: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>

commit 73500267c930baadadb0d02284909731baf151f7 upstream.

This adds ucs2_utf8size(), which tells us how big our ucs2 string is in
bytes, and ucs2_as_utf8, which translates from ucs2 to utf8..

Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@coreos.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 include/linux/ucs2_string.h |    4 ++
 lib/ucs2_string.c           |   62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+)

--- a/include/linux/ucs2_string.h
+++ b/include/linux/ucs2_string.h
@@ -11,4 +11,8 @@ unsigned long ucs2_strlen(const ucs2_cha
 unsigned long ucs2_strsize(const ucs2_char_t *data, unsigned long maxlength);
 int ucs2_strncmp(const ucs2_char_t *a, const ucs2_char_t *b, size_t len);
 
+unsigned long ucs2_utf8size(const ucs2_char_t *src);
+unsigned long ucs2_as_utf8(u8 *dest, const ucs2_char_t *src,
+			   unsigned long maxlength);
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_UCS2_STRING_H_ */
--- a/lib/ucs2_string.c
+++ b/lib/ucs2_string.c
@@ -49,3 +49,65 @@ ucs2_strncmp(const ucs2_char_t *a, const
         }
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ucs2_strncmp);
+
+unsigned long
+ucs2_utf8size(const ucs2_char_t *src)
+{
+	unsigned long i;
+	unsigned long j = 0;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < ucs2_strlen(src); i++) {
+		u16 c = src[i];
+
+		if (c > 0x800)
+			j += 3;
+		else if (c > 0x80)
+			j += 2;
+		else
+			j += 1;
+	}
+
+	return j;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ucs2_utf8size);
+
+/*
+ * copy at most maxlength bytes of whole utf8 characters to dest from the
+ * ucs2 string src.
+ *
+ * The return value is the number of characters copied, not including the
+ * final NUL character.
+ */
+unsigned long
+ucs2_as_utf8(u8 *dest, const ucs2_char_t *src, unsigned long maxlength)
+{
+	unsigned int i;
+	unsigned long j = 0;
+	unsigned long limit = ucs2_strnlen(src, maxlength);
+
+	for (i = 0; maxlength && i < limit; i++) {
+		u16 c = src[i];
+
+		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 & 0x003f);
+		} else if (c > 0x80) {
+			if (maxlength < 2)
+				break;
+			maxlength -= 2;
+			dest[j++] = 0xc0 | (c & 0xfe0) >> 5;
+			dest[j++] = 0x80 | (c & 0x01f);
+		} else {
+			maxlength -= 1;
+			dest[j++] = c & 0x7f;
+		}
+	}
+	if (maxlength)
+		dest[j] = '\0';
+	return j;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ucs2_as_utf8);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pjones@redhat.com are

queue-3.10/lib-ucs2_string-add-ucs2-utf8-helper-functions.patch
queue-3.10/lib-ucs2_string-correct-ucs2-utf8-conversion.patch
queue-3.10/efi-do-variable-name-validation-tests-in-utf8.patch
queue-3.10/efi-make-efivarfs-entries-immutable-by-default.patch
queue-3.10/efi-add-pstore-variables-to-the-deletion-whitelist.patch
queue-3.10/efi-make-our-variable-validation-list-include-the-guid.patch
queue-3.10/efi-use-ucs2_as_utf8-in-efivarfs-instead-of-open-coding-a-bad-version.patch