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When userland echoes 8bit characters to /dev/synth with e.g.
echo -e '\xe9' > /dev/synth
synth_write would get characters beyond 0x7f, and thus negative when
char is signed. When given to synth_buffer_add which takes a u16, this
would sign-extend and produce a U+ffxy character rather than U+xy.
Users thus get garbled text instead of accents in their output.
Let's fix this by making sure that we read unsigned characters.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Fixes: 89fc2ae80bb1 ("speakup: extend synth buffer to 16bit unicode characters")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240204155736.2oh4ot7tiaa2wpbh@begin
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
