[ Upstream commit ce054039 ]

Clean up receive processing by dropping the character pointer and
keeping the length argument unchanged throughout the function.

Also make it more apparent that sysrq processing can consume a
characters by adding an explicit continue.
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>