[PATCH] printk return value: fix it
authorGuillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr>
Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:02:41 +0000 (01:02 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Mon, 9 Jan 2006 04:13:52 +0000 (20:13 -0800)
What's the true meaning of the printk return value?  Should it include the
priority prefix length of 3?  and what about the timing information?  In
both cases it was broken:

strace -e write echo 1 > /dev/kmsg
=> write(1, "1\n", 2)                      = 5
strace -e write echo "<1>1" > /dev/kmsg
=> write(1, "<1>1\n", 5)                   = 8

The returned length was "length of input string + 3", I made it "length
of string output to the log buffer".

Note that I couldn't find any printk caller in the kernel interested by its
return value besides kmsg_write.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr>
Acked-By: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
kernel/printk.c

index 5287be83e3e7951740bfe4350dbc763f8d663981..2251be80cd22644bc82773ffb1cd59c6661dbc7e 100644 (file)
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
                                   p[1] <= '7' && p[2] == '>') {
                                        loglev_char = p[1];
                                        p += 3;
-                                       printed_len += 3;
+                                       printed_len -= 3;
                                } else {
                                        loglev_char = default_message_loglevel
                                                + '0';
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
 
                                for (tp = tbuf; tp < tbuf + tlen; tp++)
                                        emit_log_char(*tp);
-                               printed_len += tlen - 3;
+                               printed_len += tlen;
                        } else {
                                if (p[0] != '<' || p[1] < '0' ||
                                   p[1] > '7' || p[2] != '>') {
@@ -592,8 +592,8 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
                                        emit_log_char(default_message_loglevel
                                                + '0');
                                        emit_log_char('>');
+                                       printed_len += 3;
                                }
-                               printed_len += 3;
                        }
                        log_level_unknown = 0;
                        if (!*p)