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Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 19:34:14 +0300
From: Alexey Izbyshev <izbyshev@...ras.ru>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: [PATCH] mbrtowc: Fix wrong return value when n > UINT_MAX

mbrtowc truncates n to unsigned int when storing its copy.
If n > UINT_MAX and the locale is not POSIX, the function will
return a wrong value greater than UINT_MAX on the success path.
---
 src/multibyte/mbrtowc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/multibyte/mbrtowc.c b/src/multibyte/mbrtowc.c
index c94819e7..7824997e 100644
--- a/src/multibyte/mbrtowc.c
+++ b/src/multibyte/mbrtowc.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ size_t mbrtowc(wchar_t *restrict wc, const char *restrict src, size_t n, mbstate
 	static unsigned internal_state;
 	unsigned c;
 	const unsigned char *s = (const void *)src;
-	const unsigned N = n;
+	const size_t N = n;
 	wchar_t dummy;
 
 	if (!st) st = (void *)&internal_state;
-- 
2.39.2

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