diff --git a/lib/ucs2_string.c b/lib/ucs2_string.c
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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#include <linux/ucs2_string.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+
+/* Return the number of unicode characters in data */
+unsigned long
+ucs2_strnlen(const ucs2_char_t *s, size_t maxlength)
+{
+        unsigned long length = 0;
+
+        while (*s++ != 0 && length < maxlength)
+                length++;
+        return length;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ucs2_strnlen);
+
+unsigned long
+ucs2_strlen(const ucs2_char_t *s)
+{
+        return ucs2_strnlen(s, ~0UL);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ucs2_strlen);
+
+/*
+ * Return the number of bytes is the length of this string
+ * Note: this is NOT the same as the number of unicode characters
+ */
+unsigned long
+ucs2_strsize(const ucs2_char_t *data, unsigned long maxlength)
+{
+        return ucs2_strnlen(data, maxlength/sizeof(ucs2_char_t)) * sizeof(ucs2_char_t);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ucs2_strsize);
+
+int
+ucs2_strncmp(const ucs2_char_t *a, const ucs2_char_t *b, size_t len)
+{
+        while (1) {
+                if (len == 0)
+                        return 0;
+                if (*a < *b)
+                        return -1;
+                if (*a > *b)
+                        return 1;
+                if (*a == 0) /* implies *b == 0 */
+                        return 0;
+                a++;
+                b++;
+                len--;
+        }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ucs2_strncmp);
+
+unsigned long
+ucs2_utf8size(const ucs2_char_t *src)
+{
+	unsigned long i;
+	unsigned long j = 0;
+
+	for (i = 0; src[i]; i++) {
+		u16 c = src[i];
+
+		if (c >= 0x800)
+			j += 3;
+		else if (c >= 0x80)
+			j += 2;
+		else
+			j += 1;
+	}
+
+	return j;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ucs2_utf8size);
+
+/*
+ * copy at most maxlength bytes of whole utf8 characters to dest from the
+ * ucs2 string src.
+ *
+ * The return value is the number of characters copied, not including the
+ * final NUL character.
+ */
+unsigned long
+ucs2_as_utf8(u8 *dest, const ucs2_char_t *src, unsigned long maxlength)
+{
+	unsigned int i;
+	unsigned long j = 0;
+	unsigned long limit = ucs2_strnlen(src, maxlength);
+
+	for (i = 0; maxlength && i < limit; i++) {
+		u16 c = src[i];
+
+		if (c >= 0x800) {
+			if (maxlength < 3)
+				break;
+			maxlength -= 3;
+			dest[j++] = 0xe0 | (c & 0xf000) >> 12;
+			dest[j++] = 0x80 | (c & 0x0fc0) >> 6;
+			dest[j++] = 0x80 | (c & 0x003f);
+		} else if (c >= 0x80) {
+			if (maxlength < 2)
+				break;
+			maxlength -= 2;
+			dest[j++] = 0xc0 | (c & 0x7c0) >> 6;
+			dest[j++] = 0x80 | (c & 0x03f);
+		} else {
+			maxlength -= 1;
+			dest[j++] = c & 0x7f;
+		}
+	}
+	if (maxlength)
+		dest[j] = '\0';
+	return j;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ucs2_as_utf8);
+
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");