aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--include/linux/syslog.h6
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk.c13
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/syslog.h b/include/linux/syslog.h
index 38911391a13..ce4c6655605 100644
--- a/include/linux/syslog.h
+++ b/include/linux/syslog.h
@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@
#define SYSLOG_FROM_CALL 0
#define SYSLOG_FROM_FILE 1
+/*
+ * Syslog priority (PRI) maximum length in char : '<[0-9]{1,3}>'
+ * See RFC5424 for details
+*/
+#define SYSLOG_PRI_MAX_LENGTH 5
+
int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int count, bool from_file);
#endif /* _LINUX_SYSLOG_H */
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index b663c2c95d3..e95c66223d3 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -638,8 +638,19 @@ static void call_console_drivers(unsigned start, unsigned end)
start_print = start;
while (cur_index != end) {
if (msg_level < 0 && ((end - cur_index) > 2)) {
+ /*
+ * prepare buf_prefix, as a contiguous array,
+ * to be processed by log_prefix function
+ */
+ char buf_prefix[SYSLOG_PRI_MAX_LENGTH+1];
+ unsigned i;
+ for (i = 0; i < ((end - cur_index)) && (i < SYSLOG_PRI_MAX_LENGTH); i++) {
+ buf_prefix[i] = LOG_BUF(cur_index + i);
+ }
+ buf_prefix[i] = '\0'; /* force '\0' as last string character */
+
/* strip log prefix */
- cur_index += log_prefix(&LOG_BUF(cur_index), &msg_level, NULL);
+ cur_index += log_prefix((const char *)&buf_prefix, &msg_level, NULL);
start_print = cur_index;
}
while (cur_index != end) {