RtlUnicodeStringCat - NtDoc

Native API online documentation, based on the System Informer (formerly Process Hacker) phnt headers 
#ifndef _NTSTRSAFE_H_INCLUDED_
#ifndef NTSTRSAFE_LIB_IMPL
#ifndef NTSTRSAFE_NO_UNICODE_STRING_FUNCTIONS

/*++

  NTSTATUS
  RtlUnicodeStringCat(
  _Inout_  PUNICODE_STRING     DestinationString,
  _In_     PCUNICODE_STRING    SourceString
  );

  Routine Description:

  This routine is a safer version of the C built-in function 'strcat' for
  UNICODE_STRINGs.

  This function returns an NTSTATUS value, and not a pointer.  It returns
  STATUS_SUCCESS if the string was concatenated without truncation, otherwise
  it will return a failure code. In failure cases as much of SourceString will be
  appended to DestinationString as possible.

Arguments:

DestinationString   -   pointer to the counted unicode destination string

SourceString        -   pointer to the counted unicode source string

Notes:
Behavior is undefined if source and destination strings overlap.

DestinationString and pszSrc should not be NULL.  See RtlUnicodeStringCatEx
if you require the handling of NULL values.

Return Value:

STATUS_SUCCESS -   if there was source data and it was all concatenated

failure        -   the operation did not succeed

STATUS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW
Note: This status has the severity class Warning - IRPs completed with this
status do have their data copied back to user mode
-   this return value is an indication that the
operation failed due to insufficient space. When this
error occurs, the destination buffer is modified to
contain a truncated version of the ideal result.
This is useful for situations where truncation is ok.

It is strongly recommended to use the NT_SUCCESS() macro to test the
return value of this function.

--*/

NTSTRSAFEDDI
RtlUnicodeStringCat(
        _Inout_ PUNICODE_STRING DestinationString,
        _In_ PCUNICODE_STRING SourceString)
{
    NTSTATUS status;
    wchar_t* pszDest;
    size_t cchDest;
    size_t cchDestLength;

    status = RtlUnicodeStringValidateDestWorker(DestinationString,
            &pszDest,
            &cchDest,
            &cchDestLength,
            NTSTRSAFE_UNICODE_STRING_MAX_CCH,
            0);

    if (NT_SUCCESS(status))
    {
        wchar_t* pszSrc;
        size_t cchSrcLength;

        status = RtlUnicodeStringValidateSrcWorker(SourceString,
                &pszSrc,
                &cchSrcLength,
                NTSTRSAFE_UNICODE_STRING_MAX_CCH,
                0);

        if (NT_SUCCESS(status))
        {
            size_t cchCopied = 0;

            status = RtlWideCharArrayCopyWorker(pszDest + cchDestLength,
                    cchDest - cchDestLength,
                    &cchCopied,
                    pszSrc,
                    cchSrcLength);

            // safe to multiply (cchDestLength + cchCopied) * sizeof(wchar_t) since (cchDestLength + cchCopied) < NTSTRSAFE_UNICODE_STRING_MAX_CCH and sizeof(wchar_t) is 2
            DestinationString->Length = (USHORT)((cchDestLength + cchCopied) * sizeof(wchar_t));
        }
    }

    return status;
}

#endif
#endif
#endif

View code on GitHub
// ntstrsafe.h

NTSTRSAFEDDI RtlUnicodeStringCat(
  [in, out] PUNICODE_STRING  DestinationString,
  [in]      PCUNICODE_STRING SourceString
);
View the official Windows Driver Kit DDI reference

NtDoc

No description available.

Edit description on GitHub

Windows Driver Kit DDI reference (nf-ntstrsafe-rtlunicodestringcat)

RtlUnicodeStringCat function

Description

The RtlUnicodeStringCat function concatenates two strings that are contained in UNICODE_STRING structures.

Parameters

DestinationString [in, out]

A pointer to a UNICODE_STRING structure. This structure includes a buffer that, on input, contains a destination string to which the source string will be concatenated. On output, this buffer is the destination buffer that contains the entire resultant string. The source string is added to the end of the destination string. The maximum number of bytes in the structure's string buffer is NTSTRSAFE_UNICODE_STRING_MAX_CCH * sizeof(WCHAR).

SourceString [in]

A pointer to a UNICODE_STRING structure. This structure includes a buffer that contains the source string. This string will be added to the end of the destination string. The maximum number of bytes in the structure's string buffer is NTSTRSAFE_UNICODE_STRING_MAX_CCH * sizeof(WCHAR).

Return value

RtlUnicodeStringCat returns one of the following NTSTATUS values.

Return code Description
STATUS_SUCCESS This success status means that source data was present, the strings were concatenated without truncation, and the resultant destination buffer is null-terminated.
STATUS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW This warning status means that the concatenation operation did not complete because of insufficient buffer space. The destination buffer contains a truncated, null-terminated version of the intended result.
STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER This error status means that the function received an invalid input parameter. For more information, see the following list.

RtlUnicodeStringCat returns the STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER value when one of the following occurs:

For information about how to test NTSTATUS values, see Using NTSTATUS Values.

Remarks

The RtlUnicodeStringCat function uses the destination buffer's size to ensure that the concatenation operation does not write past the end of the buffer. The function does not terminate the resultant string with a null character value (that is, with zero).

If the source and destination strings overlap, the behavior of the function is undefined.

The SourceString and DestinationString pointers cannot be NULL. If you need to handle NULL pointer values, use RtlUnicodeStringCatEx.

For more information about the safe string functions, see Using Safe String Functions.

See also

RtlUnicodeStringCatEx

UNICODE_STRING

View the official Windows Driver Kit DDI reference

Edit description on GitHub