* re : PROBLEM: Data corruption when pasting large data to terminal
@ 2012-02-21 13:37 Matthieu CASTET
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From: Matthieu CASTET @ 2012-02-21 13:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; +Cc: Egmont Koblinger, Alan Cox
Hi,
> - I couldn't reproduce with cat-like applications, I have a feeling
> perhaps the bug only occurs in raw terminal mode, but I'm really not
> sure about this.
We saw in our case a possible data corruption in the tty layer :
in n_tty the n_tty_receive_buf can drop characters if it can't copy all of them
in the tty circular buffer.
A fix should be to remove tty->receive_room and make n_tty_receive_buf return
the number of bytes copied.
A patch to correct this was done in b1c43f82c5aa265442f82dba31ce985ebb7aa71c,
but it was reverted because it was buggy.
May be you should check that this is not your problem.
Matthieu
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