Re: [PATCH] printk: ringbuffer: fix line counting

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (21/01/13 15:48), John Ogness wrote:
> 
> Counting text lines in a record simply involves counting the number
> of newline characters (+1). However, it is searching the full data
> block for newline characters, even though the text data can be (and
> often is) a subset of that area. Since the extra area in the data
> block was never initialized, the result is that extra newlines may
> be seen and counted.
> 
> Restrict newline searching to the text data length.
> 
> Fixes: b6cf8b3f3312 ("printk: add lockless ringbuffer")
> Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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

	-ss