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authorDouglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>2023-06-28 12:56:17 -0700
committerDaniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>2023-06-30 16:44:29 +0100
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kdb: Handle LF in the command parser
The main kdb command parser only handles CR (ASCII 13 AKA '\r') today, but not LF (ASCII 10 AKA '\n'). That means that the kdb command parser can handle terminals that send just CR or that send CR+LF but can't handle terminals that send just LF. The fact that kdb didn't handle LF in the command parser tripped up a tool I tried to use with it. Specifically, I was trying to send a command to my device to resume it from kdb using a ChromeOS tool like: dut-control cpu_uart_cmd:"g" That tool only terminates lines with LF, not CR+LF. Arguably the ChromeOS tool should be fixed. After all, officially kdb seems to be designed such that CR+LF is the official line ending transmitted over the wire and that internally a line ending is just '\n' (LF). Some evidence: * uart_poll_put_char(), which is used by kdb, notices a '\n' and converts it to '\r\n'. * kdb functions specifically use '\r' to get a carriage return without a newline. You can see this in the pager where kdb will write a '\r' and then write over the pager prompt. However, all that being said there's no real harm in accepting LF as a command terminator in the kdb parser and doing so seems like it would improve compatibility. After this, I'd expect that things would work OK-ish with a remote terminal that used any of CR, CR+LF, or LF as a line ending. Someone using CR as a line ending might get some ugliness where kdb wasn't able to overwrite the last line, but basic commands would work. Someone using just LF as a line ending would probably also work OK. A few other notes: - It can be noted that "bash" running on an "agetty" handles LF as a line termination with no complaints. - Historically, kdb's "pager" actually handled either CR or LF fine. A very quick inspection would make one think that kdb's pager actually could have paged down two lines instead of one for anyone using CR+LF, but this is generally avoided because of kdb_input_flush(). - Conceivably one could argue that some of this special case logic belongs in uart_poll_get_char() since uart_poll_put_char() handles the '\n' => '\r\n' conversion. I would argue that perhaps we should eventually do the opposite and move the '\n' => '\r\n' out of uart_poll_put_char(). Having that conversion at such a low level could interfere if we ever want to transfer binary data. In addition, if we truly made uart_poll_get_char() the inverse of uart_poll_put_char() it would convert back to '\n' and (ironically) kdb's parser currently only looks for '\r' to find the end of a command. Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230628125612.1.I5cc6c3d916195f5bcfdf5b75d823f2037707f5dc@changeid Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c16
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
index 5c7e9ba7cd6b..813cb6cf72d6 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ char kdb_getchar(void)
int escape_delay = 0;
get_char_func *f, *f_prev = NULL;
int key;
+ static bool last_char_was_cr;
for (f = &kdb_poll_funcs[0]; ; ++f) {
if (*f == NULL) {
@@ -150,6 +151,18 @@ char kdb_getchar(void)
}
/*
+ * The caller expects that newlines are either CR or LF. However
+ * some terminals send _both_ CR and LF. Avoid having to handle
+ * this in the caller by stripping the LF if we saw a CR right
+ * before.
+ */
+ if (last_char_was_cr && key == '\n') {
+ last_char_was_cr = false;
+ continue;
+ }
+ last_char_was_cr = (key == '\r');
+
+ /*
* When the first character is received (or we get a change
* input source) we set ourselves up to handle an escape
* sequences (just in case).
@@ -244,7 +257,8 @@ poll_again:
*cp = tmp;
}
break;
- case 13: /* enter */
+ case 10: /* linefeed */
+ case 13: /* carriage return */
*lastchar++ = '\n';
*lastchar++ = '\0';
if (!KDB_STATE(KGDB_TRANS)) {