kdb: Avoid printing KERN_ levels to consoles

Currently when kdb traps printk messages then the raw log level prefix
(consisting of '\001' followed by a numeral) does not get stripped off
before the message is issued to the various I/O handlers supported by
kdb. This causes annoying visual noise as well as causing problems
grepping for ^. It is also a change of behaviour compared to normal usage
of printk() usage. For example <SysRq>-h ends up with different output to
that of kdb's "sr h".

This patch addresses the problem by stripping log levels from messages
before they are issued to the I/O handlers. printk() which can also
act as an i/o handler in some cases is special cased; if the caller
provided a log level then the prefix will be preserved when sent to
printk().

The addition of non-printable characters to the output of kdb commands is a
regression, albeit and extremely elderly one, introduced by commit
04d2c8c83d0e ("printk: convert the format for KERN_<LEVEL> to a 2 byte
pattern"). Note also that this patch does *not* restore the original
behaviour from v3.5. Instead it makes printk() from within a kdb command
display the message without any prefix (i.e. like printk() normally does).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kdb.h b/include/linux/kdb.h
index 75ae2e2631fc..a19bcf9e762e 100644
--- a/include/linux/kdb.h
+++ b/include/linux/kdb.h
@@ -156,8 +156,14 @@ typedef enum {
 	KDB_REASON_SYSTEM_NMI,	/* In NMI due to SYSTEM cmd; regs valid */
 } kdb_reason_t;
 
+enum kdb_msgsrc {
+	KDB_MSGSRC_INTERNAL, /* direct call to kdb_printf() */
+	KDB_MSGSRC_PRINTK, /* trapped from printk() */
+};
+
 extern int kdb_trap_printk;
-extern __printf(1, 0) int vkdb_printf(const char *fmt, va_list args);
+extern __printf(2, 0) int vkdb_printf(enum kdb_msgsrc src, const char *fmt,
+				      va_list args);
 extern __printf(1, 2) int kdb_printf(const char *, ...);
 typedef __printf(1, 2) int (*kdb_printf_t)(const char *, ...);