The intention here is to consume and discard the remaining buffer upon error. This works if there has not been a previous partial write. If there has been, then total_len is no longer total number of bytes to copy. total_len is always "bytes left to copy", so it should be added to written bytes.
This code may not be exercised any more if partial writes will not be hit, but this is a small bugfix before a larger change. Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com> --- arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c index 516e23de5a3d..87d4c0aa7f64 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c @@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ int opal_put_chars(uint32_t vtermno, const char *data, int total_len) /* Closed or other error drop */ if (rc != OPAL_SUCCESS && rc != OPAL_BUSY && rc != OPAL_BUSY_EVENT) { - written = total_len; + written += total_len; break; } if (rc == OPAL_SUCCESS) { -- 2.17.0