FAILED: patch "[PATCH] printk: Do not lose last line in kmsg buffer dump" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] printk: Do not lose last line in kmsg buffer dump" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-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@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From c9dccacfccc72c32692eedff4a27a4b0833a2afd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
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@axis.com
Fixes: e2ae715d66bf4bec ("kmsg - kmsg_dump() use iterator to receive log buffer content")
To: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.5+
Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>

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);

Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] printk: Do not lose last line in kmsg buffer dump" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

[Sasha Levin]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 07:04:11PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
>
>The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-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@vger.kernel.org>.

I've grabbed 5aa068ea4082b ("printk: remove games with previous record
flags") to resolve this.

--
Thanks,
Sasha