From 025510cd20f4c35c3958bea133d96c9bd7c6ef9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guillaume Chazarain Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 01:02:41 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] printk return value: fix it 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 Acked-By: Tim Bird Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/printk.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index 5287be83e3..2251be80cd 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -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) -- 2.39.5