Re: [PATCH] vgacon: unconfuse vc_origin when using soft scrollback

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> The vt code is just a frigging mess of integer variables and pointer 
> variables referring to the same thing. It is therefore littered with 
> casts all over the place. And of course I missed one in this patch.  
> 
> Here's a revised patch to quiet a warning:

And of course I forgot to commit and reposted the same patch 
with the missing cast. So here it is again:

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Subject: [PATCH] vgacon: unconfuse vc_origin when using soft scrollback

When CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK is selected, the VGA display memory
index and vc_visible_origin don't change when scrollback is activated.
The actual screen content is saved away and the scrollbackdata is copied
over it. However the vt code, and /dev/vcs devices in particular, still
expect vc_origin to always point at the actual screen content not the
displayed scrollback content.

So adjust vc_origin to point at the saved screen content when scrollback
is active and set it back to vc_visible_origin when restoring the screen.

This fixes /dev/vcsa<n> that return scrollback content when they
shouldn't (onli /dev/vcsa without a number should), and also fixes
/dev/vcsu that should return scrollback content when scrollback is
active but currently doesn't.

An unnecessary call to vga_set_mem_top() is also removed.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <n...@linaro.org>
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org # v4.19+

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I tagged it for stable starting with v4.19 as this is the kernel that
introduced /dev/vcsu* which is directly affected. Users of earlier kernels
most likely won't care.

diff --git a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
index 09731b2f68..c6b3bdbbdb 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
@@ -271,6 +271,7 @@ static void vgacon_scrollback_update(struct vc_data *c, int 
t, int count)
 
 static void vgacon_restore_screen(struct vc_data *c)
 {
+       c->vc_origin = c->vc_visible_origin;
        vgacon_scrollback_cur->save = 0;
 
        if (!vga_is_gfx && !vgacon_scrollback_cur->restore) {
@@ -287,8 +288,7 @@ static void vgacon_scrolldelta(struct vc_data *c, int lines)
        int start, end, count, soff;
 
        if (!lines) {
-               c->vc_visible_origin = c->vc_origin;
-               vga_set_mem_top(c);
+               vgacon_restore_screen(c);
                return;
        }
 
@@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ static void vgacon_scrolldelta(struct vc_data *c, int lines)
        if (!vgacon_scrollback_cur->save) {
                vgacon_cursor(c, CM_ERASE);
                vgacon_save_screen(c);
+               c->vc_origin = (unsigned long)c->vc_screenbuf;
                vgacon_scrollback_cur->save = 1;
        }
 
@@ -335,7 +336,7 @@ static void vgacon_scrolldelta(struct vc_data *c, int lines)
                int copysize;
 
                int diff = c->vc_rows - count;
-               void *d = (void *) c->vc_origin;
+               void *d = (void *) c->vc_visible_origin;
                void *s = (void *) c->vc_screenbuf;
 
                count *= c->vc_size_row;