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    printk/NMI: fix up handling of the full nmi log buffer · 4a998e32
    Petr Mladek authored
    vsnprintf() adds the trailing '\0' but it does not count it into the
    number of printed characters.  The result is that there is one byte less
    space for the real characters in the buffer.
    
    The broken check for the free space might cause that we will repeatedly
    try to print 1 character into the buffer, never reach the full buffer,
    and do not count the messages as missed.
    
    Also vsnprintf() returns the number of characters that would be printed
    if the buffer was big enough.  As a result, s->len might be bigger than
    the size of the buffer[*].  And the printk() function might return
    bigger len than it really printed.  Both problems are fixed by using
    vscnprintf() instead.
    
    Note that I though about increasing the number of missed messages even
    when the message was shrunken.  But it made the code even more
    complicated.  I think that it is not worth it.  Shrunken messages are
    usually easy to recognize.  And it should be a corner case.
    
    [*] The overflown s->len value is crazy and unexpected.  I "made a
    mistake" and reported this situation as an internal error when fixed
    handling of PR_CONT headers in some other patch.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161208174912.GA17042@linux.suseSigned-off-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
    CcL Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
    Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
    Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
    Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
    Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
    Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
    Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
    Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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