This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kdb: Use the passed prompt in kdb_position_cursor() to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: kdb-use-the-passed-prompt-in-kdb_position_cursor.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3f6c27e1f6c8f15ddfff196f74191859f98ad4d4 Author: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue May 28 07:11:48 2024 -0700 kdb: Use the passed prompt in kdb_position_cursor() [ Upstream commit e2e821095949cde46256034975a90f88626a2a73 ] The function kdb_position_cursor() takes in a "prompt" parameter but never uses it. This doesn't _really_ matter since all current callers of the function pass the same value and it's a global variable, but it's a bit ugly. Let's clean it up. Found by code inspection. This patch is expected to functionally be a no-op. Fixes: 09b35989421d ("kdb: Use format-strings rather than '\0' injection in kdb_read()") Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240528071144.1.I0feb49839c6b6f4f2c4bf34764f5e95de3f55a66@changeid Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c index fbbe198b056d4..d545abe080876 100644 --- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c +++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ char kdb_getchar(void) */ static void kdb_position_cursor(char *prompt, char *buffer, char *cp) { - kdb_printf("\r%s", kdb_prompt_str); + kdb_printf("\r%s", prompt); if (cp > buffer) kdb_printf("%.*s", (int)(cp - buffer), buffer); }