From 8ece3b3eb576a78d2e67ad4c3a80a39fa6708809 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruno Meneguele Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 07:33:44 -0300 Subject: 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: Bruno Meneguele Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek --- Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/ABI') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg b/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg index f307506eb54c..1e6c28b1942b 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg @@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ Description: The /dev/kmsg character device node provides userspace access seek after the last record available at the time 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 prefix including priority and facility, the 64 bit message sequence number and the monotonic timestamp in microseconds, -- cgit v1.2.3