On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 10:08:49PM +0100, Volker Rümelin wrote:
The variable rx_bytes is marked VARLOW. Add a missing GET_LOW()
to access rx_bytes.

Reported-by: Gabe Black <gabe.bl...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Volker Rümelin <vr_q...@t-online.de>
Thanks.  Good catch!

I think we should fix this by copying the contents into a local
variable to hopefully avoid this type of error in the future.  Patch
below.

-Kevin

The patch looks good. Are you going to send the patch to the mailing list or should I do it?

With best regards,
Volker


--- a/src/sercon.c
+++ b/src/sercon.c
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ sercon_check_event(void)
      u16 addr = GET_LOW(sercon_port);
      u16 keycode;
      u8 byte, count = 0;
-    int seq, chr;
+    int seq;
// check to see if there is a active serial port
      if (!addr)
@@ -640,20 +640,23 @@ sercon_check_event(void)
      // read all available data
      while (inb(addr + SEROFF_LSR) & 0x01) {
          byte = inb(addr + SEROFF_DATA);
-        if (GET_LOW(rx_bytes) < sizeof(rx_buf)) {
-            SET_LOW(rx_buf[rx_bytes], byte);
-            SET_LOW(rx_bytes, GET_LOW(rx_bytes) + 1);
+        u8 rb = GET_LOW(rx_bytes);
+        if (rb < sizeof(rx_buf)) {
+            SET_LOW(rx_buf[rb], byte);
+            SET_LOW(rx_bytes, rb + 1);
              count++;
          }
      }
for (;;) {
          // no (more) input data
-        if (!GET_LOW(rx_bytes))
+        u8 rb = GET_LOW(rx_bytes);
+        if (!rb)
              return;
// lookup escape sequences
-        if (GET_LOW(rx_bytes) > 1 && GET_LOW(rx_buf[0]) == 0x1b) {
+        u8 next_char = GET_LOW(rx_buf[0]);
+        if (rb > 1 && next_char == 0x1b) {
              seq = findseq();
              if (seq >= 0) {
                  enqueue_key(GET_GLOBAL(termseq[seq].keycode));
@@ -664,12 +667,11 @@ sercon_check_event(void)
// Seems we got a escape sequence we didn't recognise.
          //  -> If we received data wait for more, maybe it is just incomplete.
-        if (GET_LOW(rx_buf[0]) == 0x1b && count)
+        if (next_char == 0x1b && count)
              return;
// Handle input as individual char.
-        chr = GET_LOW(rx_buf[0]);
-        keycode = ascii_to_keycode(chr);
+        keycode = ascii_to_keycode(next_char);
          if (keycode)
              enqueue_key(keycode);
          shiftbuf(1);

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