Re: [PATCH next 0/2] printk: fix reading beyond buffer

[Joe Perches]

On Sat, 2020-09-26 at 04:01 +0206, John Ogness wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Marek Szyprowski reported [0] a problem with a particular printk
> usage. This particular usage performs thousands of LOG_CONT calls.
> The printk.c implementation was only limiting the growing record by
> the maximum size available in the ringbuffer, thus creating a record
> that was several kilobytes in size. This in and of itself is not
> a problem.

Perhaps another mechanism would be to change the code to
add a backspace before the rotor and have the printk
ringbuffer actually backspace on \h when position > 0

Something like:
---
diff --git a/init/do_mounts_rd.c b/init/do_mounts_rd.c
index ac021ae6e6fa..8a36443b4866 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts_rd.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts_rd.c
@@ -257,7 +258,7 @@ int __init rd_load_image(char *from)
                kernel_write(out_file, buf, BLOCK_SIZE, &out_pos);
 #if !defined(CONFIG_S390)
                if (!(i % 16)) {
-                       pr_cont("%c\b", rotator[rotate & 0x3]);
+                       pr_cont("\h%c\b", rotator[rotate & 0x3]);
                        rotate++;
                }
 #endif