[PATCH] Bug in NLS UTF-8 code

I've recently (actually, last month, but I had been a bit too busy
since then) come across a wee problem, in what I originally thought
was the VFAT code -- having `utf8' as one of the options, creating
UTF-8 file names on a VFAT partition mysteriously gains a couple of
(random) characters just after the UTF-8 escaped character: eg.
touch "fooCbar" where C is an UTF-8 escape sequence ends up creating
a file named "fooCRbar". (R being some random character.)

I eventually tracked it down to one line in fs/nls/nls_base.c -- the
UCS-2 (wchar_t) string pointer was being incremented too fast. After
consulting Ogawa Hirofumi-san on the subject, he mentioned that
include/linux/nls.h also needs to be changed for proper UTF-8
support in the NLS code.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nls.h b/include/linux/nls.h
index f47902bcfdb0..2ab6466f8043 100644
--- a/include/linux/nls.h
+++ b/include/linux/nls.h
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ struct nls_table {
 };
 
 /* this value hold the maximum octet of charset */
-#define NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE 3
+#define NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE 6 /* for UTF-8 */
 
 /* nls.c */
 extern int register_nls(struct nls_table *);