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SubjectRe: buffer overflows in the tty flip buffer in 2.6.17
Thanx for your respond. 

Could you please inform me what patches exactly you have grabbed?

>On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 03:29:31PM +0300, Mockern wrote:
>> 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);
>>
>> This example makes sure there are no buffer overflows in the tty flip buffer as the data is being added.
>>
>> But how it is done in 2.6.17 linux kernel? I did check this "overflow code" in new tty driver's code. This code looks like just removed. But somehow overflow in the tty buffer must be kept.
>
>Well there was a problem in 2.6.16, which was fixed by 2.6.18, although
>I am not sure if it was done by 2.6.17. It would loose characters due
>to buffer overflow and not properly checking under high load. I grabbed
>a few patches from the git tree that were added after 2.6.16 to fix the
>tty problems I was having.
>
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>Len Sorensen
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