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The spapr-vty device implements the PAPR defined virtual console, which is also implemented by IBM's proprietary PowerVM hypervisor. PowerVM's implementation has a bug where it inserts an extra \0 after every \r going to the guest. Because of that Linux's guest side driver has a workaround which strips \0 characters that appear immediately after a \r. That means that when running under qemu, sending a binary stream from host to guest via spapr-vty which happens to include a \r\0 sequence will get corrupted by that workaround. To deal with that, this patch duplicates PowerVM's bug, inserting an extra \0 after each \r. Ugly, but the best option available. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>