linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] printk/btrfs: Handle more message headers

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Date:   Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:12:17 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] printk/btrfs: Handle more message headers

On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 17:52 +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> Note that 3 bytes should be enough for the header buffer. I am not
> sure where the 4 bytes came from. Maybe it expected that both
> KERN_SOH and the log level strings end with '\0' but they
> are concatenated.

I believe it was from when KERN_<LEVEL> was ascii "<[0-7]>"
and not KERN_SOH "[0-7]".  I just didn't change the size.

see: commit e2aed8dfa50b ("btrfs: use printk_get_level and printk_skip_level, add __printf, fix fallout")