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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-29 11:28:30 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-29 11:28:30 -0800
commit76babde121d2ffef04ca692ce64ef9f8a9866086 (patch)
tree294923bbb4974258d86d223e35eee691abacdfb1 /drivers/char/hvc_vio.c
parente71ac6032edf77a1e4a81f3e3b260807e94b37a5 (diff)
parent15e812ad849e142e3dfc984d33c4d8042389f148 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (67 commits) [PATCH] powerpc: Remove oprofile spinlock backtrace code [PATCH] powerpc: Add oprofile calltrace support to all powerpc cpus [PATCH] powerpc: Add oprofile calltrace support [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: ppc [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: powerpc [PATCH] lock PTE before updating it in 440/BookE page fault handler [PATCH] powerpc: Kill _machine and hard-coded platform numbers ppc: Fix compile error in arch/ppc/lib/strcase.c [PATCH] git-powerpc: WARN was a dumb idea [PATCH] powerpc: a couple of trivial compile warning fixes powerpc: remove OCP references powerpc: Make uImage default build output for MPC8540 ADS powerpc: move math-emu over to arch/powerpc powerpc: use memparse() for mem= command line parsing ppc: fix strncasecmp prototype [PATCH] powerpc: make ISA floppies work again [PATCH] powerpc: Fix some initcall return values [PATCH] powerpc: Workaround for pSeries RTAS bug [PATCH] spufs: fix __init/__exit annotations [PATCH] powerpc: add hvc backend for rtas ...
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/hvc_vio.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/hvc_vio.c11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hvc_vio.c b/drivers/char/hvc_vio.c
index f5212eb2b41..9add81ceb44 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hvc_vio.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hvc_vio.c
@@ -31,10 +31,13 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
+
#include <asm/hvconsole.h>
#include <asm/vio.h>
#include <asm/prom.h>
+#include "hvc_console.h"
+
char hvc_driver_name[] = "hvc_console";
static struct vio_device_id hvc_driver_table[] __devinitdata = {
@@ -48,6 +51,14 @@ static int filtered_get_chars(uint32_t vtermno, char *buf, int count)
unsigned long got;
int i;
+ /*
+ * Vio firmware will read up to SIZE_VIO_GET_CHARS at its own discretion
+ * so we play safe and avoid the situation where got > count which could
+ * overload the flip buffer.
+ */
+ if (count < SIZE_VIO_GET_CHARS)
+ return -EAGAIN;
+
got = hvc_get_chars(vtermno, buf, count);
/*