Re: [PATCH] printk: implement printk_buf overflow warning

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Feb 13 2008 - 19:00:49 EST


On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:03:12 +0900
Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> printk silently truncates messages longer than 1024 - 1 bytes.
> Implement overflow detection and append "$PRINTK_BUF_OVERFLOW$\n" to
> truncated messages.

I don't think I've ever heard of anyone managing to overflow the printk
buffer and it's hard to imagine how a sane person could manage to do this.

I assume this is happening because of changes in your other patchset, and
that this change is hence associated with those changes and should probably
be a part of the same patch series?
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