On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Banerjee, Debabrata <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/16/14, 7:41 PM, "Linus Torvalds" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Banerjee, Debabrata >><[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> No that can't be right, the prev value after every loop is the >>>msg->flags >>> from the *last* line in the list, which has no relation to the *first*, >>>so >>> reusing it for the top of the next loop is nonsense. >> >>Please, Debabrata, humor me, and just try the patch. >> >>And try reading the source code. Because your statement is BS. > ... >>No, I haven't tested my patch, and maybe it's broken for some subtle >>reason I'm missing too. > > Yes my explanation was wrong, your patch works for me. I assumed printing > the prefix was desired, but if not, great.
The resulting patch from this discussion: commit e4178d809fdaee32a56833fff1f5056c99e90a1a Author: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Date: Mon Feb 17 12:24:45 2014 -0800 printk: fix syslog() overflowing user buffer has not made it into stable yet. Can we add it to the stable queue? I'm not sure if it needs more bake time, etc. -- Josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
