diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-tty b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-tty
index ad22fb0ee765b792a3bc0ab7f9d2995c69f1d5d0..a2ccec35ffce2cedb601d4cad55012b56a3c4e6f 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-tty
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-tty
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ Date:		Nov 2010
 Contact:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
 Description:
 		 Shows the list of currently configured
-		 console devices, like 'tty1 ttyS0'.
+		 tty devices used for the console,
+		 like 'tty1 ttyS0'.
 		 The last entry in the file is the active
 		 device connected to /dev/console.
 		 The file supports poll() to detect virtual
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index c74a00ad7add80254ddf98dbaf88ed0725a540e0..bd2715a9d8e5ac959ec1681fd920e953859856a3 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -1267,16 +1267,17 @@ static void pty_line_name(struct tty_driver *driver, int index, char *p)
  *	@p: output buffer of at least 7 bytes
  *
  *	Generate a name from a driver reference and write it to the output
- *	buffer.
+ *	buffer. Return the number of bytes written.
  *
  *	Locking: None
  */
-static void tty_line_name(struct tty_driver *driver, int index, char *p)
+static ssize_t tty_line_name(struct tty_driver *driver, int index, char *p)
 {
 	if (driver->flags & TTY_DRIVER_UNNUMBERED_NODE)
-		strcpy(p, driver->name);
+		return sprintf(p, "%s", driver->name);
 	else
-		sprintf(p, "%s%d", driver->name, index + driver->name_base);
+		return sprintf(p, "%s%d", driver->name,
+			       index + driver->name_base);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -3545,9 +3546,19 @@ static ssize_t show_cons_active(struct device *dev,
 		if (i >= ARRAY_SIZE(cs))
 			break;
 	}
-	while (i--)
-		count += sprintf(buf + count, "%s%d%c",
-				 cs[i]->name, cs[i]->index, i ? ' ':'\n');
+	while (i--) {
+		struct tty_driver *driver;
+		const char *name = cs[i]->name;
+		int index = cs[i]->index;
+
+		driver = cs[i]->device(cs[i], &index);
+		if (driver) {
+			count += tty_line_name(driver, index, buf + count);
+			count += sprintf(buf + count, "%c", i ? ' ':'\n');
+		} else
+			count += sprintf(buf + count, "%s%d%c",
+					 name, index, i ? ' ':'\n');
+	}
 	console_unlock();
 
 	return count;