linux/drivers/tty/vt, branch v6.17

vt: defkeymap: Map keycodes above 127 to K_HOLE

2025-07-22T16:53:56Z

The maximum number of keycodes got bumped to 256 a very long time ago, but the default keymaps were never adjusted to match. This is causing the kernel to interpret keycodes above 127 as U+0000 if the shipped generated keymap is used. Fix this by mapping all keycodes above 127 to K_HOLE so the kernel ignores them. The contents of this patche were generated by rerunning `loadkeys --mktable --unicode` and only including the changes to map keycodes above 127 to K_HOLE. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Myrrh Periwinkle Cc: stable Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250702-vt-misc-unicode-fixes-v1-2-c27e143cc2eb@qtmlabs.xyz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vt: keyboard: Don't process Unicode characters in K_OFF mode

2025-07-22T16:53:50Z

We don't process Unicode characters if the virtual terminal is in raw mode, so there's no reason why we shouldn't do the same for K_OFF (especially since people would expect K_OFF to actually turn off all VT key processing). Fixes: 9fc3de9c8356 ("vt: Add virtual console keyboard mode OFF") Signed-off-by: Myrrh Periwinkle Cc: stable Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250702-vt-misc-unicode-fixes-v1-1-c27e143cc2eb@qtmlabs.xyz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vt: fix kernel-doc warnings in ucs_get_fallback()

2025-06-19T11:27:36Z

Use the correct function parameter name in ucs_get_fallback() to prevent kernel-doc warnings: Warning: drivers/tty/vt/ucs.c:218 function parameter 'cp' not described in 'ucs_get_fallback' Warning: drivers/tty/vt/ucs.c:218 Excess function parameter 'base' description in 'ucs_get_fallback' Fixes: fe26933cf1e1 ("vt: add ucs_get_fallback()") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre . Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611020229.2650595-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vt: add missing notification when switching back to text mode

2025-06-19T11:27:16Z

Programs using poll() on /dev/vcsa to be notified when VT changes occur were missing one case: the switch from gfx to text mode. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9o5ro928-0pp4-05rq-70p4-ro385n21n723@onlyvoer.pbz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vt: add VT_GETCONSIZECSRPOS to retrieve console size and cursor position

2025-05-21T11:41:03Z

The console dimension and cursor position are available through the /dev/vcsa interface already. However the /dev/vcsa header format uses single-byte fields therefore those values are clamped to 255. As surprizing as this may seem, some people do use 240-column 67-row screens (a 1920x1080 monitor with 8x16 pixel fonts) which is getting close to the limit. Monitors with higher resolution are not uncommon these days (3840x2160 producing a 480x135 character display) and it is just a matter of time before someone with, say, a braille display using the Linux VT console and BRLTTY on such a screen reports a bug about missing and oddly misaligned screen content. Let's add VT_GETCONSIZECSRPOS for the retrieval of console size and cursor position without byte-sized limitations. The actual console size limit as encoded in vt.c is 32767x32767 so using a short here is appropriate. Then this can be used to get the cursor position when /dev/vcsa reports 255. The screen dimension may already be obtained using TIOCGWINSZ and adding the same information to VT_GETCONSIZECSRPOS might be redundant. However applications that care about cursor position also care about display size and having 2 separate system calls to obtain them separately is wasteful. Also, the cursor position can be queried by writing "\e[6n" to a tty and reading back the result but that may be done only by the actual application using that tty and not a sideline observer. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250520171851.1219676-3-nico@fluxnic.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vt: bracketed paste support

2025-05-21T11:41:03Z

This is comprised of 3 aspects: - Take note of when applications advertise bracketed paste support via "\e[?2004h" and "\e[?2004l". - Insert bracketed paste markers ("\e[200~" and "\e[201~") around pasted content in paste_selection() when bracketed paste is active. - Add TIOCL_GETBRACKETEDPASTE to return bracketed paste status so user space daemons implementing cut-and-paste functionality (e.g. gpm, BRLTTY) may know when to insert bracketed paste markers. Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracketed-paste Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250520171851.1219676-2-nico@fluxnic.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vt: remove VT_RESIZE and VT_RESIZEX from vt_compat_ioctl()

2025-05-21T11:40:05Z

They are listed amon those cmd values that "treat 'arg' as an integer" which is wrong. They should instead fall into the default case. Probably nobody ever relied on that code since 2009 but still. Fixes: e92166517e3c ("tty: handle VT specific compat ioctls in vt driver") Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/pr214s15-36r8-6732-2pop-159nq85o48r7@syhkavp.arg Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vt: process the full-width ASCII fallback range programmatically

2025-05-21T11:39:45Z

This shaves about 170 bytes from ucs.o. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507141535.40655-9-nico@fluxnic.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vt: make use of ucs_get_fallback() when glyph is unavailable

2025-05-21T11:39:45Z

Attempt to display a fallback character when given character doesn't have an available glyph. The substitution may not be as good as the original character but still way more helpful than a squared question mark. Example substitutions: À -> A, ç -> c, ø -> o, ─ -> -, © -> C, etc. See gen_ucs_fallback_table.py for a comprehensive list. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507141535.40655-8-nico@fluxnic.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vt: add ucs_get_fallback()

2025-05-21T11:39:45Z

This is the code querying the newly introduced tables. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250507141535.40655-7-nico@fluxnic.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman