The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From c9dccacfccc72c32692eedff4a27a4b0833a2afd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 16:29:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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@xxxxxxxx Fixes: e2ae715d66bf4bec ("kmsg - kmsg_dump() use iterator to receive log buffer content") To: rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v3.5+ Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c index 1888f6a3b694..424abf802f02 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c @@ -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);
