nls: add a nls_nullsize inline
authorJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:45:08 +0000 (06:45 -0400)
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:32:11 +0000 (15:32 +0000)
It's possible for character sets to require a multi-byte null
string terminator. Add a helper function that determines the size
of the null terminator at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
include/linux/nls.h

index 6a88220..52b1a76 100644 (file)
@@ -58,6 +58,25 @@ static inline int nls_strnicmp(struct nls_table *t, const unsigned char *s1,
        return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * nls_nullsize - return length of null character for codepage
+ * @codepage - codepage for which to return length of NULL terminator
+ *
+ * Since we can't guarantee that the null terminator will be a particular
+ * length, we have to check against the codepage. If there's a problem
+ * determining it, assume a single-byte NULL terminator.
+ */
+static inline int
+nls_nullsize(const struct nls_table *codepage)
+{
+       int charlen;
+       char tmp[NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE];
+
+       charlen = codepage->uni2char(0, tmp, NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE);
+
+       return charlen > 0 ? charlen : 1;
+}
+
 #define MODULE_ALIAS_NLS(name) MODULE_ALIAS("nls_" __stringify(name))
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_NLS_H */