Re: [PATCH] sysrq: Restore original console_loglevel when sysrq disabled

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (01/11/19 13:45), Petr Mladek wrote:
> The sysrq header line is printed with an increased loglevel
> to provide users some positive feedback.
> 
> The original loglevel is not restored when the sysrq operation
> is disabled. This bug was introduced in 2.6.12 (pre-git-history)
> by the commit ("Allow admin to enable only some of the Magic-Sysrq
> functions").


Good find, and the patch looks OK to me. A small comment below.
FWIW,
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>


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A side note (nitpick, etc.); it's Friday night in here, I'm enjoying
my beer; so maybe I'm wrong about the whole thing.


> @@ -553,6 +553,7 @@ void __handle_sysrq(int key, bool check_mask)
>  			op_p->handler(key);
>  		} else {
>  			pr_cont("This sysrq operation is disabled.\n");
> +			console_loglevel = orig_log_level;
>  		}

This looks a bit racy.

When we do

	printk("FOO\n");
	console_loglevel = XYZ;

We don't have any real guarantees that printk("FOO\n") will print
anything straight ahead. It is possible that console_sem is already
locked and the owner is preempted, so by the time the console_sem
owner picks up that FOO\n messages, console_loglevel is back to
orig_log_level and suppress_message_printing() will just tell us
to skip the message.

Do we need pr_cont() there? Maybe we can just have a normal pr_err()
which would always tell that "key" sysrq is disabled? (we also
would need to change the error message a bit).

	-ss