kdb: Avoid printing KERN_ levels to consoles

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
04d2c8c83d ("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>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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Daniel Thompson 2014-11-07 18:37:57 +00:00 committed by Jason Wessel
parent df0036d117
commit f7d4ca8bbf
3 changed files with 21 additions and 11 deletions

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@ -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 *, ...);