[PATCH 5.10 095/199] printk: ringbuffer: fix line counting

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-26T09:50:19Z

From: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>

[ Upstream commit 668af87f995b6d6d09595c088ad1fb5dd9ff25d2 ]

Counting text lines in a record simply involves counting the number
of newline characters (+1). However, it is searching the full data
block for newline characters, even though the text data can be (and
often is) a subset of that area. Since the extra area in the data
block was never initialized, the result is that extra newlines may
be seen and counted.

Restrict newline searching to the text data length.

Fixes: b6cf8b3f3312 ("printk: add lockless ringbuffer")
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210113144234.6545-1-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c b/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c
index 74e25a1704f2b..617dd63589650 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c
@@ -1720,7 +1720,7 @@ static bool copy_data(struct prb_data_ring *data_ring,

/* Caller interested in the line count? */
if (line_count)
- *line_count = count_lines(data, data_size);
+ *line_count = count_lines(data, len);

/* Caller interested in the data content? */
if (!buf || !buf_size)
--
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