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Date:      Sun, 17 Feb 2002 13:52:40 -0800 (PST)
From:      Neelkanth Natu <neelnatu@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   bug in ptcwrite()
Message-ID:  <20020217215240.6584.qmail@web14205.mail.yahoo.com>

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Hi,

The following code in ptcwrite() in kern/tty_pty.c is supposed to prevent 
the tty input buffer overflow (for certain cases):

   612	if ((tp->t_rawq.c_cc + tp->t_canq.c_cc) >= TTYHOG - 2 &&
   613	   (tp->t_canq.c_cc > 0 || !(tp->t_iflag&ICANON))) {
   614		wakeup(TSA_HUP_OR_INPUT(tp));
   615		goto block;
   616	}

But the ICANON flag is set in tp->t_lflag and not tp->t_iflag. The ICRNL flag
in tp->t_iflag has the same value as the ICANON flag in tp->t_lflag (0x100).
This leads to input buffer overflow as soon as the ICRNL bit is set in 
tp->t_iflag, and there are more than 1024 characters that telnet/ssh wants 
to write to the pty.

I discovered this problem when using libreadline because it changes the 
terminal settings every time it is begins/finishes reading a line.

Has anyone else seen a similar problem ? I saw identical behavior on NetBSD
too. Please CC me as I am not on the mailing list.

thanks
Neel


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