Patch "efi: Use ucs2_as_utf8 in efivarfs instead of open coding a bad version" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    efi: Use ucs2_as_utf8 in efivarfs instead of open coding a bad version

to the 3.14-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:
     efi-use-ucs2_as_utf8-in-efivarfs-instead-of-open-coding-a-bad-version.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 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 e0d64e6a880e64545ad7d55786aa84ab76bac475 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:48:12 -0500
Subject: efi: Use ucs2_as_utf8 in efivarfs instead of open coding a bad version

From: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>

commit e0d64e6a880e64545ad7d55786aa84ab76bac475 upstream.

Translate EFI's UCS-2 variable names to UTF-8 instead of just assuming
all variable names fit in ASCII.

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

---
 drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c |   28 ++++++++++------------------
 fs/efivarfs/super.c            |    7 +++----
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c
@@ -409,35 +409,27 @@ efivar_create_sysfs_entry(struct efivar_
 {
 	int i, short_name_size;
 	char *short_name;
-	unsigned long variable_name_size;
-	efi_char16_t *variable_name;
-
-	variable_name = new_var->var.VariableName;
-	variable_name_size = ucs2_strlen(variable_name) * sizeof(efi_char16_t);
+	unsigned long utf8_name_size;
+	efi_char16_t *variable_name = new_var->var.VariableName;
 
 	/*
-	 * Length of the variable bytes in ASCII, plus the '-' separator,
+	 * Length of the variable bytes in UTF8, plus the '-' separator,
 	 * plus the GUID, plus trailing NUL
 	 */
-	short_name_size = variable_name_size / sizeof(efi_char16_t)
-				+ 1 + EFI_VARIABLE_GUID_LEN + 1;
-
-	short_name = kzalloc(short_name_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	utf8_name_size = ucs2_utf8size(variable_name);
+	short_name_size = utf8_name_size + 1 + EFI_VARIABLE_GUID_LEN + 1;
 
+	short_name = kmalloc(short_name_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!short_name)
 		return 1;
 
-	/* Convert Unicode to normal chars (assume top bits are 0),
-	   ala UTF-8 */
-	for (i=0; i < (int)(variable_name_size / sizeof(efi_char16_t)); i++) {
-		short_name[i] = variable_name[i] & 0xFF;
-	}
+	ucs2_as_utf8(short_name, variable_name, short_name_size);
+
 	/* This is ugly, but necessary to separate one vendor's
 	   private variables from another's.         */
-
-	*(short_name + strlen(short_name)) = '-';
+	short_name[utf8_name_size] = '-';
 	efi_guid_unparse(&new_var->var.VendorGuid,
-			 short_name + strlen(short_name));
+			 short_name + utf8_name_size + 1);
 
 	new_var->kobj.kset = efivars_kset;
 
--- a/fs/efivarfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ static int efivarfs_callback(efi_char16_
 	struct dentry *dentry, *root = sb->s_root;
 	unsigned long size = 0;
 	char *name;
-	int len, i;
+	int len;
 	int err = -ENOMEM;
 
 	entry = kmalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -128,15 +128,14 @@ static int efivarfs_callback(efi_char16_
 	memcpy(entry->var.VariableName, name16, name_size);
 	memcpy(&(entry->var.VendorGuid), &vendor, sizeof(efi_guid_t));
 
-	len = ucs2_strlen(entry->var.VariableName);
+	len = ucs2_utf8size(entry->var.VariableName);
 
 	/* name, plus '-', plus GUID, plus NUL*/
 	name = kmalloc(len + 1 + EFI_VARIABLE_GUID_LEN + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!name)
 		goto fail;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
-		name[i] = entry->var.VariableName[i] & 0xFF;
+	ucs2_as_utf8(name, entry->var.VariableName, len);
 
 	name[len] = '-';
 


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

queue-3.14/lib-ucs2_string-add-ucs2-utf8-helper-functions.patch
queue-3.14/lib-ucs2_string-correct-ucs2-utf8-conversion.patch
queue-3.14/efi-do-variable-name-validation-tests-in-utf8.patch
queue-3.14/efi-make-efivarfs-entries-immutable-by-default.patch
queue-3.14/efi-add-pstore-variables-to-the-deletion-whitelist.patch
queue-3.14/efi-make-our-variable-validation-list-include-the-guid.patch
queue-3.14/efi-use-ucs2_as_utf8-in-efivarfs-instead-of-open-coding-a-bad-version.patch