On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:05:13PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 02:34:46PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 07:49:26AM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > > On Nov 06, 2007, at 07:23:36, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > > >> On 11/6/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:34:05PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > > >>>> As far as I understand the problem now, isspace() accepts the 0xa0 > > >>>> character which might collide with some of UTF-8 encoded characters > > >>>> cause the high bit is set. > > >> > > >> I admit I'm not experienced in such encoding stuff, but shouldn't the > > >> ASCII and the ASCII-compatible UTF-8 encodings be enough for the labels? > > >> > > >>> It would not work if someone would e.g. give you UTF-16 encoded > > >>> strings, > > >>> but I don't see this happening in practice. > > >> > > >> Won't this complicate the code too much ? > > > > > > Well the VFS (for example) certainly doesn't support any encodings other > > > than various extended-ASCII forms (which includes UTF-8). Something like > > > UTF-16 has extra null characters in-between every normal character, and > > > as > > > such would fail completely if passed to the VFS. > > > > Good point. > > > > > Personally I think that isspace() accepting character 0xA0 is a bug, as > > > there are several variants of extended ASCII only one of which has that > > > character as a space. Others have it as ?? (accented A), etc. > > > > But even then Smack would still have a similar problem with isgraph(). > > > > Great, To summarize the discussion. Will there be a problem in > accepting ASCII and the UTF-8 ASCII _subset_ _only_ and return > -EINVAL for all other cases/ecnodings ?.
The UTF-8 ASCII subset is the complete ASCII. > i.e. The fragment I sent in a previous message: > > /* Filter UTF-8 non-ascii compatible bytes (> 0x7F) */ > if (!isascii(c)) return -EINVAL; > /* Filter unwanted ascii chars */ > if (!isspace(c) && !isgraph(c)) return -EINVAL; >... As I already said, this should work fine. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html