This patch fixes strange characters in serial console.

Before:

[    0.448000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
�[    0.695000] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 0) is a 16550A
�[    0.942000] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 0) is a 16550A
�[    1.189000] serial8250: ttyS2 at I/O 0x3e8 (irq = 0) is a 16550A
[    1.194000] Non-volatile memory driver v1.3

After:

[    0.541000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[    0.788000] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 0) is a 16550A
[    1.041000] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 0) is a 16550A
[    1.294000] serial8250: ttyS2 at I/O 0x3e8 (irq = 0) is a 16550A
[    1.309000] Non-volatile memory driver v1.3

Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias.he...@gmail.com>
---
 tools/kvm/term.c |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/kvm/term.c b/tools/kvm/term.c
index 2a3e1f0..85b41e7 100644
--- a/tools/kvm/term.c
+++ b/tools/kvm/term.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <sys/uio.h>
 #include <signal.h>
+#include <ctype.h>
 
 #include "kvm/read-write.h"
 #include "kvm/term.h"
@@ -57,8 +58,10 @@ int term_putc(int who, char *addr, int cnt)
        if (who != active_console)
                return -1;
 
-       while (cnt--)
-               fprintf(stdout, "%c", *addr++);
+       while (cnt--) {
+               if (isascii(*addr))
+                       fprintf(stdout, "%c", *addr++);
+       }
 
        fflush(stdout);
        return cnt;
-- 
1.7.5.4

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