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<title>printk: fix return value of printk.devkmsg __setup handler</title>
<updated>2022-04-15T12:14:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
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<published>2022-02-28T22:05:56Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit b665eae7a788c5e2bc10f9ac3c0137aa0ad1fc97 ]

If an invalid option value is used with "printk.devkmsg=&lt;value&gt;",
it is silently ignored.
If a valid option value is used, it is honored but the wrong return
value (0) is used, indicating that the command line option had an
error and was not handled. This string is not added to init's
environment strings due to init/main.c::unknown_bootoption()
checking for a '.' in the boot option string and then considering
that string to be an "Unused module parameter".

Print a warning message if a bad option string is used.
Always return 1 from the __setup handler to indicate that the command
line option has been handled.

Fixes: 750afe7babd1 ("printk: add kernel parameter to control writes to /dev/kmsg")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Reported-by: Igor Zhbanov &lt;i.zhbanov@omprussia.ru&gt;
Link: lore.kernel.org/r/64644a2f-4a20-bab3-1e15-3b2cdd0defe3@omprussia.ru
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220228220556.23484-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>printk/console: Allow to disable console output by using console="" or console=null</title>
<updated>2021-11-12T13:40:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-11T13:54:50Z</published>
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commit 3cffa06aeef7ece30f6b5ac0ea51f264e8fea4d0 upstream.

The commit 48021f98130880dd74 ("printk: handle blank console arguments
passed in.") prevented crash caused by empty console= parameter value.

Unfortunately, this value is widely used on Chromebooks to disable
the console output. The above commit caused performance regression
because the messages were pushed on slow console even though nobody
was watching it.

Use ttynull driver explicitly for console="" and console=null
parameters. It has been created for exactly this purpose.

It causes that preferred_console is set. As a result, ttySX and ttyX
are not used as a fallback. And only ttynull console gets registered by
default.

It still allows to register other consoles either by additional console=
parameters or SPCR. It prevents regression because it worked this way even
before. Also it is a sane semantic. Preventing output on all consoles
should be done another way, for example, by introducing mute_console
parameter.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201006025935.GA597@jagdpanzerIV.localdomain
Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201111135450.11214-3-pmladek@suse.com
Cc: Yi Fan &lt;yfa@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>printk: fix deadlock when kernel panic</title>
<updated>2021-03-04T08:39:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Muchun Song</name>
<email>songmuchun@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-10T03:48:23Z</published>
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commit 8a8109f303e25a27f92c1d8edd67d7cbbc60a4eb upstream.

printk_safe_flush_on_panic() caused the following deadlock on our
server:

CPU0:                                         CPU1:
panic                                         rcu_dump_cpu_stacks
  kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus                      nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace
    register_nmi_handler(crash_nmi_callback)      printk_safe_flush
                                                    __printk_safe_flush
                                                      raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;read_lock)
    // send NMI to other processors
    apic_send_IPI_allbutself(NMI_VECTOR)
                                                        // NMI interrupt, dead loop
                                                        crash_nmi_callback
  printk_safe_flush_on_panic
    printk_safe_flush
      __printk_safe_flush
        // deadlock
        raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;read_lock)

DEADLOCK: read_lock is taken on CPU1 and will never get released.

It happens when panic() stops a CPU by NMI while it has been in
the middle of printk_safe_flush().

Handle the lock the same way as logbuf_lock. The printk_safe buffers
are flushed only when both locks can be safely taken. It can avoid
the deadlock _in this particular case_ at expense of losing contents
of printk_safe buffers.

Note: It would actually be safe to re-init the locks when all CPUs were
      stopped by NMI. But it would require passing this information
      from arch-specific code. It is not worth the complexity.
      Especially because logbuf_lock and printk_safe buffers have been
      obsoleted by the lockless ring buffer.

Fixes: cf9b1106c81c ("printk/nmi: flush NMI messages on the system panic")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210210034823.64867-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>printk: handle blank console arguments passed in.</title>
<updated>2020-10-01T11:14:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Shreyas Joshi</name>
<email>shreyas.joshi@biamp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-22T06:53:06Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 48021f98130880dd74286459a1ef48b5e9bc374f ]

If uboot passes a blank string to console_setup then it results in
a trashed memory. Ultimately, the kernel crashes during freeing up
the memory.

This fix checks if there is a blank parameter being
passed to console_setup from uboot. In case it detects that
the console parameter is blank then it doesn't setup the serial
device and it gracefully exits.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200522065306.83-1-shreyas.joshi@biamp.com
Signed-off-by: Shreyas Joshi &lt;shreyas.joshi@biamp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
[pmladek@suse.com: Better format the commit message and code, remove unnecessary brackets.]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>printk: queue wake_up_klogd irq_work only if per-CPU areas are ready</title>
<updated>2020-07-22T07:32:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-03T11:30:02Z</published>
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commit ab6f762f0f53162d41497708b33c9a3236d3609e upstream.

printk_deferred(), similarly to printk_safe/printk_nmi, does not
immediately attempt to print a new message on the consoles, avoiding
calls into non-reentrant kernel paths, e.g. scheduler or timekeeping,
which potentially can deadlock the system.

Those printk() flavors, instead, rely on per-CPU flush irq_work to print
messages from safer contexts.  For same reasons (recursive scheduler or
timekeeping calls) printk() uses per-CPU irq_work in order to wake up
user space syslog/kmsg readers.

However, only printk_safe/printk_nmi do make sure that per-CPU areas
have been initialised and that it's safe to modify per-CPU irq_work.
This means that, for instance, should printk_deferred() be invoked "too
early", that is before per-CPU areas are initialised, printk_deferred()
will perform illegal per-CPU access.

Lech Perczak [0] reports that after commit 1b710b1b10ef ("char/random:
silence a lockdep splat with printk()") user-space syslog/kmsg readers
are not able to read new kernel messages.

The reason is printk_deferred() being called too early (as was pointed
out by Petr and John).

Fix printk_deferred() and do not queue per-CPU irq_work before per-CPU
areas are initialized.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aa0732c6-5c4e-8a8b-a1c1-75ebe3dca05b@camlintechnologies.com/
Reported-by: Lech Perczak &lt;l.perczak@camlintechnologies.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>printk: fix exclusive_console replaying</title>
<updated>2020-02-11T12:33:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Ogness</name>
<email>john.ogness@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-19T11:53:22Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit def97da136515cb289a14729292c193e0a93bc64 ]

Commit f92b070f2dc8 ("printk: Do not miss new messages when replaying
the log") introduced a new variable @exclusive_console_stop_seq to
store when an exclusive console should stop printing. It should be
set to the @console_seq value at registration. However, @console_seq
is previously set to @syslog_seq so that the exclusive console knows
where to begin. This results in the exclusive console immediately
reactivating all the other consoles and thus repeating the messages
for those consoles.

Set @console_seq after @exclusive_console_stop_seq has stored the
current @console_seq value.

Fixes: f92b070f2dc8 ("printk: Do not miss new messages when replaying the log")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191219115322.31160-1-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>printk: fix integer overflow in setup_log_buf()</title>
<updated>2019-12-01T08:16:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-10T11:33:08Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit d2130e82e9454304e9b91ba9da551b5989af8c27 ]

The way we calculate logbuf free space percentage overflows signed
integer:

	int free;

	free = __LOG_BUF_LEN - log_next_idx;
	pr_info("early log buf free: %u(%u%%)\n",
		free, (free * 100) / __LOG_BUF_LEN);

We support LOG_BUF_LEN of up to 1&lt;&lt;25 bytes. Since setup_log_buf() is
called during early init, logbuf is mostly empty, so

	__LOG_BUF_LEN - log_next_idx

is close to 1&lt;&lt;25. Thus when we multiply it by 100, we overflow signed
integer value range: 100 is 2^6 + 2^5 + 2^2.

Example, booting with LOG_BUF_LEN 1&lt;&lt;25 and log_buf_len=2G
boot param:

[    0.075317] log_buf_len: -2147483648 bytes
[    0.075319] early log buf free: 33549896(-28%)

Make "free" unsigned integer and use appropriate printk() specifier.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181010113308.9337-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
To: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>printk: lock/unlock console only for new logbuf entries</title>
<updated>2019-12-01T08:16:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-02T02:38:35Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3ac37a93fa9217e576bebfd4ba3e80edaaeb2289 ]

Prior to commit 5c2992ee7fd8a29 ("printk: remove console flushing special
cases for partial buffered lines") we would do console_cont_flush()
for each pr_cont() to print cont fragments, so console_unlock() would
actually print data:

	pr_cont();
	 console_lock();
	 console_unlock()
	  console_cont_flush(); // print cont fragment
	...
	pr_cont();
	 console_lock();
	 console_unlock()
	  console_cont_flush(); // print cont fragment

We don't do console_cont_flush() anymore, so when we do pr_cont()
console_unlock() does nothing (unless we flushed the cont buffer):

	pr_cont();
	 console_lock();
	 console_unlock();      // noop
	...
	pr_cont();
	 console_lock();
	 console_unlock();      // noop
	...
	pr_cont();
	  cont_flush();
	    console_lock();
	    console_unlock();   // print data

We also wakeup klogd purposelessly for pr_cont() output - un-flushed
cont buffer is not stored in log_buf; there is nothing to pull.

Thus we can console_lock()/console_unlock()/wake_up_klogd() only when
we know that we log_store()-ed a message and there is something to
print to the consoles/syslog.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181002023836.4487-3-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
To: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: LKML &lt;linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>printk: Give error on attempt to set log buffer length to over 2G</title>
<updated>2019-11-24T07:20:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>He Zhe</name>
<email>zhe.he@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-29T16:45:53Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit e6fe3e5b7d16e8f146a4ae7fe481bc6e97acde1e ]

The current printk() is ready to handle log buffer size up to 2G.
Give an explicit error for users who want to use larger log buffer.

Also fix printk formatting to show the 2G as a positive number.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181008135916.gg4kkmoki5bgtco5@pathway.suse.cz
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: He Zhe &lt;zhe.he@windriver.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
[pmladek: Fixed to the really safe limit 2GB.]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>printk: Correct wrong casting</title>
<updated>2019-11-24T07:20:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>He Zhe</name>
<email>zhe.he@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-29T16:45:51Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 51a72ab7372d85c96104e58036f1b49ba11e5d2b ]

log_first_seq and console_seq are 64-bit unsigned integers.
Correct a wrong casting that might cut off the output.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1538239553-81805-2-git-send-email-zhe.he@windriver.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: He Zhe &lt;zhe.he@windriver.com&gt;
[sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com: More descriptive commit message]
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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