Re: [lkp] [printk.c] ea0639c4d5: BUG:recent_printk_recursion

Petr Mladek
2016-12-02T10:06:03Z

On Fri 2016-12-02 01:12:32, kernel test robot wrote:
>
> FYI, we noticed the following commit:
>
> commit: ea0639c4d5c700ad63c0ace6a7a17877aac5b4c2 ("printk.c: removed unnecessary code")
> url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Sebastian-Duda/printk-c-removed-unnecessary-code/20161130-225006
>
>
> in testcase: trinity
> with following parameters:
>
> runtime: 300s
>
> test-description: Trinity is a linux system call fuzz tester.
> test-url: http://codemonkey.org.uk/projects/trinity/
>
>
> on test machine: qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -m 256M
>
> caused below changes:
>
>
> +-------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+
> | | ded6e842cf | ea0639c4d5 |
> +-------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+
> | boot_successes | 19 | 8 |
> | boot_failures | 3 | 49 |

I am not surprised. The patch breaks counting of the space
needed to print the message. It is likely to cause buffer
overflows. I have already nacked it, see
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161130102231.GE24060@pathway.suse.cz

Anyway, thanks for testing.

Best Regards,
Petr