[PATCH 3.19 135/175] kdb: Avoid printing KERN_ levels to consoles

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-03-04T06:35:31Z

From: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>

commit f7d4ca8bbfda23b4f1eae9b6757ff64166b093d5 upstream.

Currently when kdb traps printk messages then the raw log level prefix
(consisting of '\001' followed by a numeral) does not get stripped off
before the message is issued to the various I/O handlers supported by
kdb. This causes annoying visual noise as well as causing problems
grepping for ^. It is also a change of behaviour compared to normal usage
of printk() usage. For example <SysRq>-h ends up with different output to
that of kdb's "sr h".

This patch addresses the problem by stripping log levels from messages
before they are issued to the I/O handlers. printk() which can also
act as an i/o handler in some cases is special cased; if the caller
provided a log level then the prefix will be preserved when sent to
printk().

The addition of non-printable characters to the output of kdb commands is a
regression, albeit and extremely elderly one, introduced by commit
04d2c8c83d0e ("printk: convert the format for KERN_<LEVEL> to a 2 byte
pattern"). Note also that this patch does *not* restore the original
behaviour from v3.5. Instead it makes printk() from within a kdb command
display the message without any prefix (i.e. like printk() normally does).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
include/linux/kdb.h | 8 +++++++-
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c | 22 +++++++++++++---------
kernel/printk/printk.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/kdb.h
+++ b/include/linux/kdb.h
@@ -156,8 +156,14 @@ typedef enum {
KDB_REASON_SYSTEM_NMI, /* In NMI due to SYSTEM cmd; regs valid */
} kdb_reason_t;

+enum kdb_msgsrc {
+ KDB_MSGSRC_INTERNAL, /* direct call to kdb_printf() */
+ KDB_MSGSRC_PRINTK, /* trapped from printk() */
+};
+
extern int kdb_trap_printk;
-extern __printf(1, 0) int vkdb_printf(const char *fmt, va_list args);
+extern __printf(2, 0) int vkdb_printf(enum kdb_msgsrc src, const char *fmt,
+ va_list args);
extern __printf(1, 2) int kdb_printf(const char *, ...);
typedef __printf(1, 2) int (*kdb_printf_t)(const char *, ...);

--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
@@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ static int kdb_search_string(char *searc
return 0;
}

-int vkdb_printf(const char *fmt, va_list ap)
+int vkdb_printf(enum kdb_msgsrc src, const char *fmt, va_list ap)
{
int diag;
int linecount;
@@ -691,19 +691,20 @@ kdb_printit:
* Write to all consoles.
*/
retlen = strlen(kdb_buffer);
+ cp = (char *) printk_skip_level(kdb_buffer);
if (!dbg_kdb_mode && kgdb_connected) {
- gdbstub_msg_write(kdb_buffer, retlen);
+ gdbstub_msg_write(cp, retlen - (cp - kdb_buffer));
} else {
if (dbg_io_ops && !dbg_io_ops->is_console) {
- len = retlen;
- cp = kdb_buffer;
+ len = retlen - (cp - kdb_buffer);
+ cp2 = cp;
while (len--) {
- dbg_io_ops->write_char(*cp);
- cp++;
+ dbg_io_ops->write_char(*cp2);
+ cp2++;
}
}
while (c) {
- c->write(c, kdb_buffer, retlen);
+ c->write(c, cp, retlen - (cp - kdb_buffer));
touch_nmi_watchdog();
c = c->next;
}
@@ -711,7 +712,10 @@ kdb_printit:
if (logging) {
saved_loglevel = console_loglevel;
console_loglevel = CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_SILENT;
- printk(KERN_INFO "%s", kdb_buffer);
+ if (printk_get_level(kdb_buffer) || src == KDB_MSGSRC_PRINTK)
+ printk("%s", kdb_buffer);
+ else
+ pr_info("%s", kdb_buffer);
}

if (KDB_STATE(PAGER)) {
@@ -844,7 +848,7 @@ int kdb_printf(const char *fmt, ...)
int r;

va_start(ap, fmt);
- r = vkdb_printf(fmt, ap);
+ r = vkdb_printf(KDB_MSGSRC_INTERNAL, fmt, ap);
va_end(ap);

return r;
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -1811,7 +1811,7 @@ int vprintk_default(const char *fmt, va_

#ifdef CONFIG_KGDB_KDB
if (unlikely(kdb_trap_printk)) {
- r = vkdb_printf(fmt, args);
+ r = vkdb_printf(KDB_MSGSRC_PRINTK, fmt, args);
return r;
}
#endif