Re: buffer overflows in the tty flip buffer in 2.6.17

[Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>]

Mockern napsal(a):
> When data is received from the hardware, it needs to be placed into the tty device's flip buffer. This can be done with the following bit of code:

> for (i = 0; i < data_size; ++i) {
>         if (tty->flip.count >= TTY_FLIPBUF_SIZE)
>                 tty_flip_buffer_push(tty);
>         tty_insert_flip_char(tty, data[i], 0);
> }
> tty_flip_buffer_push(tty);

size = tty_buffer_request_room(tty, data_size);
tty_insert_flip_string(tty, data, min(data_size, size));
tty_flip_buffer_push(tty);
+ cope with size < data_size (some data_size -= size with 3 lines above in do {} 
while (data_size))

regards,
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http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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