Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] fs/nls: Fix utf16 to utf8 conversion

[Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>]

Am 26.11.25 um 16:18 schrieb Andy Shevchenko:

> On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 02:11:22PM +0100, Armin Wolf wrote:
>> Currently the function responsible for converting between utf16 and
>> utf8 strings will ignore any characters that cannot be converted. This
>> however also includes multi-byte characters that do not fit into the
>> provided string buffer.
>>
>> This can cause problems if such a multi-byte character is followed by
>> a single-byte character. In such a case the multi-byte character might
>> be ignored when the provided string buffer is too small, but the
>> single-byte character might fit and is thus still copied into the
>> resulting string.
>>
>> Fix this by stop filling the provided string buffer once a character
>> does not fit. In order to be able to do this extend utf32_to_utf8()
>> to return useful errno codes instead of -1.
> Can you also update utf8_to_utf32() to return meaningful error codes?
> Without that done we have inconsistent APIs.
>
Sure, i will send a separate patch for that.

Thanks,
Armin Wolf