On 02/01/2018 09:58 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> In this previous commit:
> 
>   commit 8f61f1c5a6bc06438a1172efa80bc7606594fa07
>   Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com>
>   Date:   Mon Dec 18 19:12:20 2017 +0000
> 
>     ui: track how much decoded data we consumed when doing SASL encoding
> 
> I attempted to fix a flaw with tracking how much data had actually been
> processed when encoding with SASL. With that flaw, the VNC server could
> mistakenly discard queued data that had not been sent.
> 
> The fix was not quite right though, because it merely decremented the
> vs->output.offset value. This is effectively to discarding data from the

s/to //

> end of the pending output buffer. We actually need to discard data from
> the start of the pending output buffer. We also want to free memory that
> is no longer required. The correct way to handle this is to use the
> buffer_advance() helper method instead of directly manipulating the
> offset value.
> 
> Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  ui/vnc-auth-sasl.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>

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