This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tty: vt: fix up tabstops properly to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: tty-vt-fix-up-tabstops-properly.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f1869a890cdedb92a3fab969db5d0fd982850273 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 10:43:26 +0100 Subject: tty: vt: fix up tabstops properly From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit f1869a890cdedb92a3fab969db5d0fd982850273 upstream. Tabs on a console with long lines do not wrap properly, so correctly account for the line length when computing the tab placement location. Reported-by: James Holderness <j4_james@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c @@ -1705,7 +1705,7 @@ static void reset_terminal(struct vc_dat default_attr(vc); update_attr(vc); - vc->vc_tab_stop[0] = 0x01010100; + vc->vc_tab_stop[0] = vc->vc_tab_stop[1] = vc->vc_tab_stop[2] = vc->vc_tab_stop[3] = @@ -1748,7 +1748,7 @@ static void do_con_trol(struct tty_struc vc->vc_pos -= (vc->vc_x << 1); while (vc->vc_x < vc->vc_cols - 1) { vc->vc_x++; - if (vc->vc_tab_stop[vc->vc_x >> 5] & (1 << (vc->vc_x & 31))) + if (vc->vc_tab_stop[7 & (vc->vc_x >> 5)] & (1 << (vc->vc_x & 31))) break; } vc->vc_pos += (vc->vc_x << 1); @@ -1808,7 +1808,7 @@ static void do_con_trol(struct tty_struc lf(vc); return; case 'H': - vc->vc_tab_stop[vc->vc_x >> 5] |= (1 << (vc->vc_x & 31)); + vc->vc_tab_stop[7 & (vc->vc_x >> 5)] |= (1 << (vc->vc_x & 31)); return; case 'Z': respond_ID(tty); @@ -2001,7 +2001,7 @@ static void do_con_trol(struct tty_struc return; case 'g': if (!vc->vc_par[0]) - vc->vc_tab_stop[vc->vc_x >> 5] &= ~(1 << (vc->vc_x & 31)); + vc->vc_tab_stop[7 & (vc->vc_x >> 5)] &= ~(1 << (vc->vc_x & 31)); else if (vc->vc_par[0] == 3) { vc->vc_tab_stop[0] = vc->vc_tab_stop[1] = Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/tty-vt-fix-up-tabstops-properly.patch queue-3.18/kvm-x86-fix-icebp-instruction-handling.patch