[PATCH v3] printk: Remove console options before decoding the name
From: David Engraf
Date: Thu Sep 24 2026 - 03:02:51 EST
This fixes a regression when a console option includes ':'. Commit
7640f1a44eba ("printk: Add match_devname_and_update_preferred_console()")
introduced console=DEVNAME:0.0 hardware style addressing by looking for a
colon. If the colon is part of an option the name is handled as devname
instead of ttyname.
Fix by handling the options first which will add a NULL terminator to the
string and refactor idx handling to clean up the code (thanks to Petr
Mladek).
Signed-off-by: David Engraf <david.engraf@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/printk/printk.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 6d3d18a50da74..2cbb84effb619 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -2646,24 +2646,25 @@ static int __init console_setup(char *str)
if (_braille_console_setup(&str, &brl_options))
return 1;
+ /*
+ * Decode str into name, index and options. Start with options, since
+ * it might also contain a ':' used for DEVNAME.
+ */
+ options = strchr(str, ',');
+ if (options)
+ *(options++) = 0;
+
/* For a DEVNAME:0.0 style console the character device is unknown early */
if (strchr(str, ':'))
devname = buf;
else
ttyname = buf;
- /*
- * Decode str into name, index, options.
- */
if (ttyname && isdigit(str[0]))
scnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "ttyS%s", str);
else
strscpy(buf, str);
- options = strchr(str, ',');
- if (options)
- *(options++) = 0;
-
#ifdef __sparc__
if (!strcmp(str, "ttya"))
strscpy(buf, "ttyS0");
@@ -2671,17 +2672,18 @@ static int __init console_setup(char *str)
strscpy(buf, "ttyS1");
#endif
- for (s = buf; *s; s++)
- if ((ttyname && isdigit(*s)) || *s == ',')
- break;
-
- /* @idx will get defined when devname matches. */
- if (devname)
- idx = -1;
- else
+ if (ttyname) {
+ /* Detect @idx in ttyname and remove it. */
+ for (s = ttyname; *s; s++) {
+ if (isdigit(*s))
+ break;
+ }
idx = simple_strtoul(s, NULL, 10);
-
- *s = 0;
+ *s = 0;
+ } else {
+ /* @idx will get defined when devname matches. */
+ idx = -1;
+ }
__add_preferred_console(ttyname, idx, devname, options, brl_options, true);
return 1;
--
2.53.0