linux-kernel - [PATCH net/next] net: ipconfig: Avoid spurious blank lines in boot log

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Date:   Tue, 10 Nov 2020 08:37:57 +0100
From:   Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
Subject: [PATCH net/next] net: ipconfig: Avoid spurious blank lines in boot log

From: Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>

When dumping the name and NTP servers advertised by DHCP, a blank line
is emitted if either of the lists is empty. This can lead to confusing
issues such as the blank line getting flagged as warning. This happens
because the blank line is the result of pr_cont("\n") and that may see
its level corrupted by some other driver concurrently writing to the
console.

Fix this by making sure that the terminating newline is only emitted
if at least one entry in the lists was printed before.

Reported-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>
---
 net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
index 561f15b5a944..3cd13e1bc6a7 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
@@ -1441,7 +1441,7 @@ static int __init ip_auto_config(void)
 	int retries = CONF_OPEN_RETRIES;
 #endif
 	int err;
-	unsigned int i;
+	unsigned int i, count;
 
 	/* Initialise all name servers and NTP servers to NONE (but only if the
 	 * "ip=" or "nfsaddrs=" kernel command line parameters weren't decoded,
@@ -1575,7 +1575,7 @@ static int __init ip_auto_config(void)
 	if (ic_dev_mtu)
 		pr_cont(", mtu=%d", ic_dev_mtu);
 	/* Name servers (if any): */
-	for (i = 0; i < CONF_NAMESERVERS_MAX; i++) {
+	for (i = 0, count = 0; i < CONF_NAMESERVERS_MAX; i++) {
 		if (ic_nameservers[i] != NONE) {
 			if (i == 0)
 				pr_info("     nameserver%u=%pI4",
@@ -1583,12 +1583,14 @@ static int __init ip_auto_config(void)
 			else
 				pr_cont(", nameserver%u=%pI4",
 					i, &ic_nameservers[i]);
+
+			count++;
 		}
-		if (i + 1 == CONF_NAMESERVERS_MAX)
+		if ((i + 1 == CONF_NAMESERVERS_MAX) && count > 0)
 			pr_cont("\n");
 	}
 	/* NTP servers (if any): */
-	for (i = 0; i < CONF_NTP_SERVERS_MAX; i++) {
+	for (i = 0, count = 0; i < CONF_NTP_SERVERS_MAX; i++) {
 		if (ic_ntp_servers[i] != NONE) {
 			if (i == 0)
 				pr_info("     ntpserver%u=%pI4",
@@ -1596,8 +1598,10 @@ static int __init ip_auto_config(void)
 			else
 				pr_cont(", ntpserver%u=%pI4",
 					i, &ic_ntp_servers[i]);
+
+			count++;
 		}
-		if (i + 1 == CONF_NTP_SERVERS_MAX)
+		if ((i + 1 == CONF_NTP_SERVERS_MAX) && count > 0)
 			pr_cont("\n");
 	}
 #endif /* !SILENT */
-- 
2.29.2