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authorAlex Elder <elder@linaro.org>2014-07-16 08:44:38 -0500
committerAlex Elder <elder@linaro.org>2014-07-17 08:54:53 -0500
commitd4ef849926bb2548bed1d8d63a0cf3fe4a599650 (patch)
treefcd25e4a031f1ad8de6189d46a92f1a69919781e
parent4010ea588f7693e492dc75016dd9fe3d094c80c1 (diff)
printk: insert newline in devkmsg_read()
If a log record has LOG_PREFIX set, its predecessor record should be terminated if it was marked LOG_CONT. In devkmsg_read(), this condition was being ignored, which would lead to such records showing up combined when reading /dev/kmsg. Fix this oversight. Reported-by: Petr Mládek <pmladek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk/printk.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index e5ee1cb35a7..3174ba99c6e 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -575,6 +575,7 @@ static ssize_t devkmsg_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
char cont;
size_t len;
ssize_t ret;
+ bool insert_newline;
if (!user)
return -EBADF;
@@ -626,7 +627,10 @@ static ssize_t devkmsg_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
else
cont = '-';
- len = sprintf(user->buf, "%u,%llu,%llu,%c;",
+ /* Insert a newline if we're terminating the previous record early */
+ insert_newline = (user->prev & LOG_CONT) && (msg->flags & LOG_PREFIX);
+ len = sprintf(user->buf, "%s%u,%llu,%llu,%c;",
+ insert_newline ? "\n" : "",
(msg->facility << 3) | msg->level,
user->seq, ts_usec, cont);
user->prev = msg->flags;