[PATCH v3 3/7] kdb: Fix console handling when editing and tab-completing commands

From: Daniel Thompson
Date: Wed Apr 24 2024 - 10:06:39 EST


Currently, if the cursor position is not at the end of the command buffer
and the user uses the Tab-complete functions, then the console does not
leave the cursor in the correct position.

For example consider the following buffer with the cursor positioned
at the ^:

md kdb_pro 10
^

Pressing tab should result in:

md kdb_prompt_str 10
^

However this does not happen. Instead the cursor is placed at the end
(after then 10) and further cursor movement redraws incorrectly. The
same problem exists when we double-Tab but in a different part of the
code.

Fix this by sending a carriage return and then redisplaying the text to
the left of the cursor.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
index 50789c99b3ba8..5fccb46f399e5 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
@@ -383,6 +383,8 @@ static char *kdb_read(char *buffer, size_t bufsize)
kdb_printf("\n");
kdb_printf(kdb_prompt_str);
kdb_printf("%s", buffer);
+ if (cp != lastchar)
+ kdb_position_cursor(kdb_prompt_str, buffer, cp);
} else if (tab != 2 && count > 0) {
/* How many new characters do we want from tmpbuffer? */
len_tmp = strlen(p_tmp) - len;
@@ -396,6 +398,9 @@ static char *kdb_read(char *buffer, size_t bufsize)
kdb_printf("%s", cp);
cp += len_tmp;
lastchar += len_tmp;
+ if (cp != lastchar)
+ kdb_position_cursor(kdb_prompt_str,
+ buffer, cp);
}
}
kdb_nextline = 1; /* reset output line number */

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2.43.0