Re: [PATCH] printk: handle blank console arguments passed in.

From: Shreyas Joshi
Date: Mon Mar 16 2020 - 22:18:25 EST


Thanks! I thought If we put a warning there then it wonât print anything.
Please advise. I will send a new patch with the line wrapping to at most 75 once
I know if I need to change anything more.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 11:01:44AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (20/03/16 21:39), Steven Rostedt wrote:
> [..]
> > >
> > > diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c index ad4606234545..e9ad730991e0 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
> > > @@ -2165,7 +2165,10 @@ static int __init console_setup(char *str)
> > > char buf[sizeof(console_cmdline[0].name) + 4]; /* 4 for "ttyS" */
> > > char *s, *options, *brl_options = NULL;
> > > int idx;
> > > -
> > > + if (str[0] == 0) {
> > > + console_loglevel = 0;
> > > + return 1;
> >
> > Hmm, I wonder if this should produce a warning :-/
>
> Hmm. Maybe the warning can seat in __setup() handling?
> There are 300+ places that theoretically can receive blank boot param
>
> $ git grep "__setup(\".*=\"" | wc -l
> 307
>
> I'd assume that not all of those can handle blank params. At the same
> time, do we have cases when passing blank boot params is OK? E.g.
> "... root=/dev/sda1 foo= bar= ..."
>
> -ss