[PATCH v9 3/3] printk: fix double printing with earlycon

From: Aleksey Makarov
Date: Wed Apr 05 2017 - 16:21:04 EST


If a console was specified by ACPI SPCR table _and_ command line
parameters like "console=ttyAMA0" _and_ "earlycon" were specified,
then log messages appear twice.

The root cause is that the code traverses the list of specified
consoles (the `console_cmdline` array) and stops at the first match.
But it may happen that the same console is referred by the elements
of this array twice:

pl011,mmio,0x87e024000000,115200 -- from SPCR
ttyAMA0 -- from command line

but in this case `preferred_console` points to the second entry and
the flag CON_CONSDEV is not set, so bootconsole is not deregistered.

To fix that, introduce an invariant "The last non-braille console
is always the preferred one" on the entries of the console_cmdline
array. Then traverse it in reverse order to be sure that if
the console is preferred then it will be the first matching entry.
Introduce variable console_cmdline_cnt that keeps the number
of elements of the console_cmdline array (Petr Mladek). It helps
to get rid of the loop that searches for the end of this array.

Reported-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Aleksey Makarov <aleksey.makarov@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

v8 -> v9:
- Introduce variable console_cmdline_cnt that keeps the number
of elements of the console_cmdline array (Petr Mladek). It helps
to get rid of the loop that searches for the end of this array.
For the record: I think that this console_cmdline_cnt implementation
is worse than just a loop that finds the end of the array because
1) we have to support consistency between console_cmdline_cnt and
console_cmdline_cnt
2) it makes patch a bit more intrusive

v7 -> v8:
- add an explanation to the comment how console_cmdline can contain entries
referring to the same console
- move the body of the function introduced in the previous version to cycle
- don't panic() (Sergey Senozhatsky). Don't check this condition because
the loop condition guarantees that it holds.
- use swap() (Sergey Senozhatsky)

v6 -> v7:
- return back to v5
- leave the check for already registered entries and add a function that
maintains the invariant.

v5 -> v6:
- drop v5 and continue to work on v4:
- introduce _braille_is_braille_console(). It helps to split original loop
into three parts: 1) search for braille console, 2) check for
preferred_console, 3) match other entries so that these three parts do not
intersect.
- introduce for_each_console_cmdline() macros to traverse console_cmdline
(Petr Mladek)

kernel/printk/printk.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index fd752f0c8ef1..be657af45758 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ static struct console *exclusive_console;
#define MAX_CMDLINECONSOLES 8

static struct console_cmdline console_cmdline[MAX_CMDLINECONSOLES];
+static int console_cmdline_cnt;

static int preferred_console = -1;
int console_set_on_cmdline;
@@ -1905,12 +1906,26 @@ static int __add_preferred_console(char *name, int idx, char *options,
* See if this tty is not yet registered, and
* if we have a slot free.
*/
- for (i = 0, c = console_cmdline;
- i < MAX_CMDLINECONSOLES && c->name[0];
- i++, c++) {
+ for (i = 0, c = console_cmdline; i < console_cmdline_cnt; i++, c++) {
if (strcmp(c->name, name) == 0 && c->index == idx) {
- if (!brl_options)
- preferred_console = i;
+
+ if (brl_options)
+ return 0;
+
+ /*
+ * Maintain an invariant that will help to find if
+ * the matching console is preferred, see
+ * register_console():
+ *
+ * The last non-braille console is always
+ * the preferred one.
+ */
+ if (i != console_cmdline_cnt - 1)
+ swap(console_cmdline[i],
+ console_cmdline[console_cmdline_cnt - 1]);
+
+ preferred_console = console_cmdline_cnt - 1;
+
return 0;
}
}
@@ -1923,6 +1938,7 @@ static int __add_preferred_console(char *name, int idx, char *options,
braille_set_options(c, brl_options);

c->index = idx;
+ console_cmdline_cnt++;
return 0;
}
/*
@@ -2457,12 +2473,24 @@ void register_console(struct console *newcon)
}

/*
- * See if this console matches one we selected on
- * the command line.
+ * See if this console matches one we selected on the command line.
+ *
+ * There may be several entries in the console_cmdline array matching
+ * with the same console, one with newcon->match(), another by
+ * name/index:
+ *
+ * pl011,mmio,0x87e024000000,115200 -- added from SPCR
+ * ttyAMA0 -- added from command line
+ *
+ * Traverse the console_cmdline array in reverse order to be
+ * sure that if this console is preferred then it will be the first
+ * matching entry. We use the invariant that is maintained in
+ * __add_preferred_console().
*/
- for (i = 0, c = console_cmdline;
- i < MAX_CMDLINECONSOLES && c->name[0];
- i++, c++) {
+ for (i = console_cmdline_cnt - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+
+ c = console_cmdline + i;
+
if (!newcon->match ||
newcon->match(newcon, c->name, c->index, c->options) != 0) {
/* default matching */
--
2.12.1