Re: [PATCH 0/2] [BUGFIX] printk: Fix message continuation breakage involved with structured printk

Kay Sievers
2013-12-20T11:29:54Z

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Yoshihiro YUNOMAE
<yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@hitachi.com> wrote:

> This patch set fixes message continuation breakage involved with structured
> printk. A SCSI driver may output two continuation error messages like
> scmd_printk("foo");
> printf("bar\n");

Which is the absolutely wrong thing to do. Structured logging and racy
printk continuation must never be mixed. Userspace needs to be sure
that dictionary entries are not subject to racy continuation hackery,
and that these mwssages atomic, whole and intact.

Please do not mix the both and do not apply these patches.

Thanks,
Kay