linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] printk: Fix panic caused by passing log_buf

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Date:   Wed, 19 Sep 2018 10:50:30 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     zhe.he@...driver.com
Cc:     pmladek@...e.com, sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] printk: Fix panic caused by passing log_buf_len
 to command line

On (09/19/18 01:17), zhe.he@...driver.com wrote:
> @@ -1048,7 +1048,14 @@ static void __init log_buf_len_update(unsigned size)
>  /* save requested log_buf_len since it's too early to process it */
>  static int __init log_buf_len_setup(char *str)
>  {
> -	unsigned size = memparse(str, &str);
> +	unsigned size;

	unsigned int size;

> +	if (!str) {
> +		pr_err("Config string not provided\n");

pr_debug() may be?

It's not clear from this error message which one of the "config strings"
was not provided. Besides, I think "config string" is misleading and in
fact it's a "boot command line parameter". But, dunno, I guess I'd just
drop that print out.

Otherwise,

Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>

	-ss