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gpt mishandles non ascii partition names

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi <at> ubuntu.com>
Cc: 15591 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15591: [PATCH] libparted: handle i18n gpt partition names correctly
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:13:45 -0800

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Phillip Susi <psusi <at> ubuntu.com> wrote:
> gpt.c was simply truncating the UTF-16 characters stored
> in the partition name field to 8 bits.  This corrupted non
> ascii characters which later resulted in parted crashing in
> strlist.c trying to convert the now invalid multi byte
> characters to wchar.
>
> gpt.c will now properly convert the UTF-16 to the current
> locale encoding.

Hi Philip,

Thanks for fixing that.  Your patch looks good.

One nit:
> +  gpt_part_data->translated_name = strdup(name);

Would you please adjust that to handle strdup failure?
Perhaps just by using xstrdup in place of strdup.

Also, it'd be great to add a test case that fails without this fix?

Thanks,
Jim

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