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Message-ID: <52AAF97A.1090505@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:11:38 +0100 From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@...too.org> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: validation of utf-8 strings passed as system call arguments On 13/12/13 05:30, writeonce@...ipix.org wrote: > Hello, > > While working on code that converts arguments from utf-16 to utf-8, I found > myself wondering about the "responsibility" for checking well-formedness of > utf-8 strings that are passed to the kernel. As I suspected, validation of > these strings takes place neither in the kernel, nor in the C library. The > attached program demonstrates this by creating a file named <0xE0 0x9F 0x80>, > which according to the Unicode Standard (6.2, p. 95) is an ill-formed byte sequence. > > I am not sure whether this can officially be considered a bug, and it is quite > clear that fixing this is going to entail some performance penalty. That being > said, after deleting this file from my Ubuntu desktop most (but not all) > attempts to open the Trash folder made Nautilus crash, and it was only after > deleting the file permanently from the shell that order had been restored... > any kind of rejection beside null and separator seems to me that would be more harmful and even more dangerous than the status quo. lu
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