From: Vincent Whitchurch vincent.whitchurch@axis.com
[ Upstream commit b46eff55ad5bd98e746c0a7022fe7ee071de5fee ]
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: e2ae715d66bf4bec ("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: Vincent Whitchurch vincent.whitchurch@axis.com Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek pmladek@suse.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- kernel/printk/printk.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c index df348d4eeb265..6607d77afe55a 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c @@ -3131,7 +3131,7 @@ 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, NULL, 0);