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commit 3593030761630e09200072a4bd06468892c27be3 upstream.
Daniel Gibson reports that the n_tty code gets line termination wrong in
very specific cases:
"If you feed a line with exactly 64 chars + terminating newline, and
directly afterwards (without reading) another line into a pseudo
terminal, the the first read() on the other side will return the 64
char line *without* terminating newline, and the next read() will
return the missing terminating newline AND the complete next line (if
it fits in the buffer)"
and bisected the behavior to commit 3b830a9c34d5 ("tty: convert
tty_ldisc_ops 'read()' function to take a kernel pointer").
Now, digging deeper, it turns out that the behavior isn't exactly new:
what changed in commit 3b830a9c34d5 was that the tty line discipline
.read() function is now passed an intermediate kernel buffer rather than
the final user space buffer.
And that intermediate kernel buffer is 64 bytes in size - thus that
special case with exactly 64 bytes plus terminating newline.
The same problem did exist before, but historically the boundary was not
the 64-byte chunk, but the user-supplied buffer size, which is obviously
generally bigger (and potentially bigger than N_TTY_BUF_SIZE, which
would hide the issue entirely).
The reason is that the n_tty canon_copy_from_read_buf() code would look
ahead for the EOL character one byte further than it would actually
copy. It would then decide that it had found the terminator, and unmark
it as an EOL character - which in turn explains why the next read
wouldn't then be terminated by it.
Now, the reason it did all this in the first place is related to some
historical and pretty obscure EOF behavior, see commit
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