Re: [PATCH] printk: fix kmsg_dump_get_buffer length calulations

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Thu Jan 14 2021 - 09:17:51 EST


On (21/01/13 17:50), John Ogness wrote:
>
> kmsg_dump_get_buffer() uses @syslog to determine if the syslog
> prefix should be written to the buffer. However, when calculating
> the maximum number of records that can fit into the buffer, it
> always counts the bytes from the syslog prefix.
>
> Use @syslog when calculating the maximum number of records that can
> fit into the buffer.
>
> Fixes: e2ae715d66bf ("kmsg - kmsg_dump() use iterator to receive log buffer content")
> Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>

-ss