linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log

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Date:   Sat, 20 Jan 2018 15:05:29 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets

On (01/19/18 09:17), Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Yep, and even the sysctl checks for the terminating nul string, so
> there's no leaks of any kind.
> 
> Tested by adding: printk.devkmsg=on and running:
> 
>  $ hexdump -C /proc/sys/kernel/printk_devkmsg
> 00000000  6f 6e 0a                                          |on.|
> 00000003
> 
> 
> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>

thanks.

	-ss