Re: [PATCH 2/2] vt: make mouse selection of non-ASCII consistent

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Mon Mar 27 2017 - 07:51:05 EST


On 03/27/2017, 12:37 PM, Adam Borowski wrote:
> For some reason a handful of ISO-8859-1 symbols are excluded from "word
> chars" while the vast majority of Unicode is hard-coded as included, even
> when inappropriate (we really would want to _not_ select line-drawing/etc).
> Those symbols are: ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÃÃ
>
> Thus, let's not special-case any non-ASCII anymore. Attempts to set these
> via ioctl will be silently ignored.
>
> As an extra bonus, we debloat the kernel by 128 bytes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/tty/vt/selection.c | 16 ++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
> index 2252e11d8347..c81c99165ea6 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
> @@ -80,21 +80,17 @@ void clear_selection(void)
>
> /*
> * User settable table: what characters are to be considered alphabetic?
> - * 256 bits. Locked by the console lock.
> + * 128 bits. Locked by the console lock.
> */
> -static u32 inwordLut[8]={
> +static u32 inwordLut[4]={

No need for the constant here. Let it autosize.

> 0x00000000, /* control chars */
> 0x03FFE000, /* digits and "-./" */
> 0x87FFFFFE, /* uppercase and '_' */
> 0x07FFFFFE, /* lowercase */
> - 0x00000000,
> - 0x00000000,
> - 0xFF7FFFFF, /* latin-1 accented letters, not multiplication sign */
> - 0xFF7FFFFF /* latin-1 accented letters, not division sign */
> };
>
> static inline int inword(const u16 c) {
> - return c > 0xff || (( inwordLut[c>>5] >> (c & 0x1F) ) & 1);
> + return c > 0x7f || (( inwordLut[c>>5] >> (c & 0x1F) ) & 1);
> }
>
> /**
> @@ -106,10 +102,10 @@ static inline int inword(const u16 c) {
> */
> int sel_loadlut(char __user *p)
> {
> - u32 tmplut[8];
> - if (copy_from_user(tmplut, (u32 __user *)(p+4), 32))
> + u32 tmplut[4];

ARRAY_SIZE(inwordLut) here.

> + if (copy_from_user(tmplut, (u32 __user *)(p+4), 16))
> return -EFAULT;
> - memcpy(inwordLut, tmplut, 32);
> + memcpy(inwordLut, tmplut, 16);

sizeof(inwordLut) here and for copy_from_user too.

> return 0;
> }

thanks,
--
js
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