Re: [PATCH] x86: Avoid pr_cont() in show_opcodes()

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Jul 17 2018 - 17:19:57 EST


On Wed, 2018-07-18 at 05:54 +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Corrected Signed-off-by: addresses.
>
> From 96d9d4d135994a081e54d33d23f5007c53d9b5dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 22:47:11 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH v4] x86: Avoid pr_cont() in show_opcodes()
>
> Since syzbot is confused by concurrent printk() messages [1],
> this patch changes show_opcodes() to use %*ph format string.
>
> When we start adding prefix to each line of printk() output,
> we will be able to handle concurrent printk() messages.

If this were applied via git am, the commit would include
all the content from "Corrected Signed-off-by:"

Perhaps it would be better to send this as a new patch without
the leading 7 lines after the email header

> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
[]
> @@ -93,26 +93,15 @@ static void printk_stack_address(unsigned long address, int reliable,
> */
> void show_opcodes(u8 *rip, const char *loglvl)
> {
> - unsigned int code_prologue = OPCODE_BUFSIZE * 2 / 3;
> + const unsigned int prologue = OPCODE_BUFSIZE * 2 / 3;

And this might be better as a #define to avoid
a few more bytes of stack consumption.