From: Graham Gower <[email protected]> ===================================================================== | This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. | | If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.| =====================================================================
commit 1e0ad2881d50becaeea70ec696a80afeadf944d2 upstream. When all VT's are in use, VT_OPENQRY casts -1 to unsigned char before returning it to userspace as an int. VT255 is not the next available console. Signed-off-by: Graham Gower <[email protected]> Cc: Greg KH <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]> --- drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c b/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c index 6aa1028..6351a26 100644 --- a/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c @@ -503,6 +503,7 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * file, struct kbd_struct * kbd; unsigned int console; unsigned char ucval; + unsigned int uival; void __user *up = (void __user *)arg; int i, perm; int ret = 0; @@ -657,7 +658,7 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * file, break; case KDGETMODE: - ucval = vc->vc_mode; + uival = vc->vc_mode; goto setint; case KDMAPDISP: @@ -695,7 +696,7 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * file, break; case KDGKBMODE: - ucval = ((kbd->kbdmode == VC_RAW) ? K_RAW : + uival = ((kbd->kbdmode == VC_RAW) ? K_RAW : (kbd->kbdmode == VC_MEDIUMRAW) ? K_MEDIUMRAW : (kbd->kbdmode == VC_UNICODE) ? K_UNICODE : K_XLATE); @@ -717,9 +718,9 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * file, break; case KDGKBMETA: - ucval = (vc_kbd_mode(kbd, VC_META) ? K_ESCPREFIX : K_METABIT); + uival = (vc_kbd_mode(kbd, VC_META) ? K_ESCPREFIX : K_METABIT); setint: - ret = put_user(ucval, (int __user *)arg); + ret = put_user(uival, (int __user *)arg); break; case KDGETKEYCODE: @@ -949,7 +950,7 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * file, for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_CONSOLES; ++i) if (! VT_IS_IN_USE(i)) break; - ucval = i < MAX_NR_CONSOLES ? (i+1) : -1; + uival = i < MAX_NR_CONSOLES ? (i+1) : -1; goto setint; /* -- 1.7.4.4 _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
