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-rw-r--r--hw/char/spapr_vty.c18
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/hw/char/spapr_vty.c b/hw/char/spapr_vty.c
index 0fa416ca6b..6748334ded 100644
--- a/hw/char/spapr_vty.c
+++ b/hw/char/spapr_vty.c
@@ -58,6 +58,24 @@ static int vty_getchars(VIOsPAPRDevice *sdev, uint8_t *buf, int max)
while ((n < max) && (dev->out != dev->in)) {
buf[n++] = dev->buf[dev->out++ % VTERM_BUFSIZE];
+
+ /* PowerVM's vty implementation has a bug where it inserts a
+ * \0 after every \r going to the guest. Existing guests have
+ * a workaround for this which removes every \0 immediately
+ * following a \r, so here we make ourselves bug-for-bug
+ * compatible, so that the guest won't drop a real \0-after-\r
+ * that happens to occur in a binary stream. */
+ if (buf[n - 1] == '\r') {
+ if (n < max) {
+ buf[n++] = '\0';
+ } else {
+ /* No room for the extra \0, roll back and try again
+ * next time */
+ dev->out--;
+ n--;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
}
qemu_chr_fe_accept_input(&dev->chardev);