[PATCH] soc: apple: rtkit: Crop syslog messages

From: Martin Povišer
Date: Fri Feb 24 2023 - 11:22:10 EST


Crop trailing whitespace, null, and newline characters in syslog
messages received from coprocessors. Notably DCP sends its messages
including a trailing newline, so prior to this change we would end up
cluttering the kernel log by repeated newlines at the end of messages.

Signed-off-by: Martin Povišer <povik+lin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/soc/apple/rtkit.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/soc/apple/rtkit.c b/drivers/soc/apple/rtkit.c
index 35ec35aa500d..639f5134d159 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/apple/rtkit.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/apple/rtkit.c
@@ -409,11 +409,17 @@ static void apple_rtkit_syslog_rx_init(struct apple_rtkit *rtk, u64 msg)
rtk->syslog_n_entries, rtk->syslog_msg_size);
}

+static bool should_crop_syslog_char(char c)
+{
+ return c == '\n' || c == '\r' || c == ' ' || c == '\0';
+}
+
static void apple_rtkit_syslog_rx_log(struct apple_rtkit *rtk, u64 msg)
{
u8 idx = msg & 0xff;
char log_context[24];
size_t entry_size = 0x20 + rtk->syslog_msg_size;
+ int msglen;

if (!rtk->syslog_msg_buffer) {
dev_warn(
@@ -446,7 +452,13 @@ static void apple_rtkit_syslog_rx_log(struct apple_rtkit *rtk, u64 msg)
rtk->syslog_msg_size);

log_context[sizeof(log_context) - 1] = 0;
- rtk->syslog_msg_buffer[rtk->syslog_msg_size - 1] = 0;
+
+ msglen = rtk->syslog_msg_size - 1;
+ while (msglen > 0 &&
+ should_crop_syslog_char(rtk->syslog_msg_buffer[msglen - 1]))
+ msglen--;
+
+ rtk->syslog_msg_buffer[msglen] = 0;
dev_info(rtk->dev, "RTKit: syslog message: %s: %s\n", log_context,
rtk->syslog_msg_buffer);

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2.33.0