RE: [PATCH] x86: Avoid pr_cont() in show_opcodes()

[David Laight]

From: Peter Zijlstra
> Sent: 09 July 2018 09:50
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 10:54:28PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > >> Since syzbot is confused by concurrent printk() messages [1],
> > >> this patch changes show_opcodes() to use snprintf().

snprintf() is probably the wrong function.
You want the variant that always returns the number of characters
added to the buffer - not the number that would have been added
were the buffer infinite length.

> But how big of a problem is that really? We can't very well remove all
> pr_cont stuff from the kernel.

On my ubuntu 17.10 system with a 4.13 kernel some messages printed with
pr_cont end up split when displayed by dmesg.
(These are from one of our drivers, I've not looked very hard at it though.)

So maybe removing pr_cont isn't a bad idea.

	David