Jordan Crouse schrieb:
> On 20/10/08 17:16 -0600, Marc Jones wrote:
>   
>> It looks like filo has some problems with serial console.
>>
>> 1. left arrow: reboots the system
>>     
>
> Lots of left arrows - presumably any escape related key would be
> affected.  This has been reported before, but it doesn't seem to
> break in qemu, only on real hardware.
>   
The attached patch limits the amount of characters read for escape
handling to the size of the buffer.
It also changes the recursion to a while loop. A compiler "should"
resolve the tail recursion, but I'd rather be sure.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


Regards,
Patrick
=== libpayload/curses/keyboard.c
==================================================================
--- libpayload/curses/keyboard.c        (revision 2258)
+++ libpayload/curses/keyboard.c        (local)
@@ -50,21 +50,24 @@
    do the cooking in here, but we should probably eventually
    pass it to dedicated vt100 code */
 
-static int getkeyseq(char *buffer, int len)
+static int getkeyseq(char *buffer, int len, int max)
 {
        int i;
 
-       for(i = 0; i < 75; i++) {
-               if (serial_havechar())
-                       break;
-               mdelay(1);
-       }
+       while (1) {
+               for(i = 0; i < 75; i++) {
+                       if (serial_havechar())
+                               break;
+                       mdelay(1);
+               }
 
-       if (i == 75)
-               return len;
+               if (i == 75)
+                       return len;
 
-       buffer[len++] = serial_getchar();
-       return getkeyseq(buffer, len);
+               buffer[len++] = serial_getchar();
+               if (len == max)
+                       return len;
+       }
 }
 
 static struct {
@@ -99,7 +102,7 @@
 static int handle_escape(void)
 {
        char buffer[5];
-       int len = getkeyseq(buffer, 0);
+       int len = getkeyseq(buffer, 0, sizeof(buffer));
        int i, t;
 
        if (len == 0)
--
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