From: Marc Zyngier Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:08:00 +0000 (+0100) Subject: [PATCH] Fix Specialix SX corruption X-Git-Url: http://git.cdn.openwrt.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d904ffd6e0c3ab7631b07c21c9f9234a2e72d1f3;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git [PATCH] Fix Specialix SX corruption With the latest kernels, I experienced some strange corruption, some '*****' being randomly inserted in the character flow, like this: ashes:~# ashes:~# a*******shes:~# ashes:~# ashes:~# Further investigation shows that the problem was introduced during Alan's "TTY layer buffering revamp" patch, the amount of data to be copied being reduced after buffer allocation. Moving the count fixup around solves the problem. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier Approved-by: Rogier Wolff Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/drivers/char/sx.c b/drivers/char/sx.c index 588e75ec1630..a6b4f02bdceb 100644 --- a/drivers/char/sx.c +++ b/drivers/char/sx.c @@ -1095,17 +1095,17 @@ static inline void sx_receive_chars (struct sx_port *port) sx_dprintk (SX_DEBUG_RECEIVE, "rxop=%d, c = %d.\n", rx_op, c); + /* Don't copy past the end of the hardware receive buffer */ + if (rx_op + c > 0x100) c = 0x100 - rx_op; + + sx_dprintk (SX_DEBUG_RECEIVE, "c = %d.\n", c); + /* Don't copy more bytes than there is room for in the buffer */ c = tty_prepare_flip_string(tty, &rp, c); sx_dprintk (SX_DEBUG_RECEIVE, "c = %d.\n", c); - /* Don't copy past the end of the hardware receive buffer */ - if (rx_op + c > 0x100) c = 0x100 - rx_op; - - sx_dprintk (SX_DEBUG_RECEIVE, "c = %d.\n", c); - /* If for one reason or another, we can't copy more data, we're done! */ if (c == 0) break;