Commit 8ece3b3e authored by Bruno Meneguele's avatar Bruno Meneguele Committed by Petr Mladek

kernel/printk: add kmsg SEEK_CUR handling

Userspace libraries, e.g. glibc's dprintf(), perform a SEEK_CUR operation
over any file descriptor requested to make sure the current position isn't
pointing to junk due to previous manipulation of that same fd. And whenever
that fd doesn't have support for such operation, the userspace code expects
-ESPIPE to be returned.

However, when the fd in question references the /dev/kmsg interface, the
current kernel code state returns -EINVAL instead, causing an unexpected
behavior in userspace: in the case of glibc, when -ESPIPE is returned it
gets ignored and the call completes successfully, while returning -EINVAL
forces dprintf to fail without performing any action over that fd:

  if (_IO_SEEKOFF (fp, (off64_t)0, _IO_seek_cur, _IOS_INPUT|_IOS_OUTPUT) ==
  _IO_pos_BAD && errno != ESPIPE)
    return NULL;

With this patch we make sure to return the correct value when SEEK_CUR is
requested over kmsg and also add some kernel doc information to formalize
this behavior.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200317103344.574277-1-bmeneg@redhat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org,
Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Signed-off-by: default avatarBruno Meneguele <bmeneg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
parent 325606af
...@@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ Description: The /dev/kmsg character device node provides userspace access ...@@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ Description: The /dev/kmsg character device node provides userspace access
seek after the last record available at the time seek after the last record available at the time
the last SYSLOG_ACTION_CLEAR was issued. the last SYSLOG_ACTION_CLEAR was issued.
Due to the record nature of this interface with a "read all"
behavior and the specific positions each seek operation sets,
SEEK_CUR is not supported, returning -ESPIPE (invalid seek) to
errno whenever requested.
The output format consists of a prefix carrying the syslog The output format consists of a prefix carrying the syslog
prefix including priority and facility, the 64 bit message prefix including priority and facility, the 64 bit message
sequence number and the monotonic timestamp in microseconds, sequence number and the monotonic timestamp in microseconds,
......
...@@ -974,6 +974,16 @@ static loff_t devkmsg_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence) ...@@ -974,6 +974,16 @@ static loff_t devkmsg_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
user->idx = log_next_idx; user->idx = log_next_idx;
user->seq = log_next_seq; user->seq = log_next_seq;
break; break;
case SEEK_CUR:
/*
* It isn't supported due to the record nature of this
* interface: _SET _DATA and _END point to very specific
* record positions, while _CUR would be more useful in case
* of a byte-based log. Because of that, return the default
* errno value for invalid seek operation.
*/
ret = -ESPIPE;
break;
default: default:
ret = -EINVAL; ret = -EINVAL;
} }
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