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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] hvcbeat: fix buffer manipulation
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:51:06 +0100
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On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Ishizaki Kou wrote:
> This patch fixes a potential bug at drivers/char/hvc_beat.c.
> =A0- hvc_put_term_char routine will decrement "rest" variable twice,
> =A0 =A0and forget to advance "buf" pointer by "nlen" bytes.
> This bug was not hit because the output handler in
> drivers/char/hvc_console.c splits given output into 16 bytes
> at maximum.
>=20
> Reported-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kou Ishizaki <kou.ishizaki@toshiba.co.jp>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

obviously correct