linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tty: vt: saturate scrollback

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Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 15:04:07 -0700
From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, 
	Bill Wendling <morbo@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: vt: saturate scrollback_delta to avoid overflow

On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 3:01 PM Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com> wrote:
>
>
> Agreed.
>
> Does an implementation like this look any better?
>
> static inline void scrolldelta(int lines)
> {
>         ...
>         /* saturate scrollback_delta so that it never wraps around */
>         if (lines > 0)
>                 scrollback_delta = min(scrollback_delta, INT_MAX -
> lines) + lines;
>         else
>                 scrollback_delta = max(scrollback_delta, INT_MIN -
> lines) + lines;
>         schedule_console_callback();
> }

I apologize for this formatting, gmail ate my tabs.

Note to self, do NOT copy/paste from vim to gmail's web client.

> Thanks
> Justin