Use UTF-8 for all paths

src/syscall/validate.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use core::{mem, slice};
+use core::{mem, slice, str};
 
 use crate::paging::{ActivePageTable, PageTableType, Page, VirtualAddress, VirtualAddressType};
 use crate::paging::entry::EntryFlags;
@@ -51,3 +51,10 @@ pub fn validate_slice_mut<T>(ptr: *mut T, len: usize) -> Result<&'static mut [T]
         Ok(unsafe { slice::from_raw_parts_mut(ptr, len) })
     }
 }
+
+/// Convert a pointer and length to str, if valid
+//TODO: Mark unsafe
+pub fn validate_str(ptr: *const u8, len: usize) -> Result<&'static str> {
+    let slice = validate_slice(ptr, len)?;
+    str::from_utf8(slice).map_err(|_| Error::new(EINVAL))
+}