um: kmsg_dump: only dump when no output console available
The initial intention of the UML kmsg_dumper is to dump the kernel buffers to stdout if there is no console available to perform the regular crash output. However, if ttynull was registered as a console, no crash output was seen. Commit e23fe90d ("um: kmsg_dumper: always dump when not tty console") tried to fix this by performing the kmsg_dump unless the stdio console was behind /dev/console or enabled. But this allowed kmsg dumping to occur even if other non-stdio consoles will output the crash output. Also, a console being the driver behind /dev/console has nothing to do with a crash scenario. Restore the initial intention by dumping the kernel buffers to stdout only if a non-ttynull console is registered and enabled. Also add detailed comments so that it is clear why these rules are applied. Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221116162152.193147-8-john.ogness@linutronix.de
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