Commit c9dccacf authored by Vincent Whitchurch's avatar Vincent Whitchurch Committed by Petr Mladek

printk: Do not lose last line in kmsg buffer dump

kmsg_dump_get_buffer() is supposed to select all the youngest log
messages which fit into the provided buffer.  It determines the correct
start index by using msg_print_text() with a NULL buffer to calculate
the size of each entry.  However, when performing the actual writes,
msg_print_text() only writes the entry to the buffer if the written len
is lesser than the size of the buffer.  So if the lengths of the
selected youngest log messages happen to precisely fill up the provided
buffer, the last log message is not included.

We don't want to modify msg_print_text() to fill up the buffer and start
returning a length which is equal to the size of the buffer, since
callers of its other users, such as kmsg_dump_get_line(), depend upon
the current behaviour.

Instead, fix kmsg_dump_get_buffer() to compensate for this.

For example, with the following two final prints:

[    6.427502] AAAAAAAAAAAAA
[    6.427769] BBBBBBBB12345

A dump of a 64-byte buffer filled by kmsg_dump_get_buffer(), before this
patch:

 00000000: 3c 30 3e 5b 20 20 20 20 36 2e 35 32 32 31 39 37  <0>[    6.522197
 00000010: 5d 20 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 0a  ] AAAAAAAAAAAAA.
 00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
 00000030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................

After this patch:

 00000000: 3c 30 3e 5b 20 20 20 20 36 2e 34 35 36 36 37 38  <0>[    6.456678
 00000010: 5d 20 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 31 32 33 34 35 0a  ] BBBBBBBB12345.
 00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
 00000030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190711142937.4083-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com
Fixes: e2ae715d ("kmsg - kmsg_dump() use iterator to receive log buffer content")
To: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.5+
Signed-off-by: default avatarVincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
parent 7011b7e1
......@@ -3274,7 +3274,7 @@ bool kmsg_dump_get_buffer(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper, bool syslog,
/* move first record forward until length fits into the buffer */
seq = dumper->cur_seq;
idx = dumper->cur_idx;
while (l > size && seq < dumper->next_seq) {
while (l >= size && seq < dumper->next_seq) {
struct printk_log *msg = log_from_idx(idx);
l -= msg_print_text(msg, true, time, NULL, 0);
......
Markdown is supported
0%
or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment