[PATCH 0/8] Rework KERN_<LEVEL>

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Joe Perches <joe at perches.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 16:58 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>  echo "\0014Hello Joe" > /dev/kmsg
>
> # echo -e "\x014Hello Me" > /dev/kmsg
> gives:
> 12,778,4057982669;Hello Me
>
> #echo -e "\x011Hello Me_2" > /dev/kmsg
> gives:
> 12,779,4140452093;Hello Me_2
>
> I didn't change devkmsg_writev so the
> original parsing style for "<.>" is
> unchanged.
>
> from printk.c:
>
> static ssize_t devkmsg_writev(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iv,
>                              unsigned long count, loff_t pos)
> [...]
>        int level = default_message_loglevel;
> [...]
>        if (line[0] == '<') {
>                char *endp = NULL;
>
>                i = simple_strtoul(line+1, &endp, 10);
>                if (endp && endp[0] == '>') {
>                        level = i & 7;
>                        if (i >> 3)
>                                facility = i >> 3;
>                        endp++;
>                        len -= endp - line;
>                        line = endp;
>                }
>        }
>        line[len] = '\0';
>
>        printk_emit(facility, level, NULL, 0, "%s", line);
> []
>
> level is what matters.
>
> from dmesg -r
>
> <12>[ 2462.339252] \001Hello Andrew
> <9>[ 2516.023444] Hello Andrew
> <12>[ 3046.752764] \x01Hello Kay
> <12>[ 3940.871850] \x01Hello Kay
> <12>[ 4057.982669] Hello Me
> <12>[ 4140.452093] Hello Me_2

The question is what happens if you inject your new binary two-byte
prefix, like:
  echo -e "\x01\x02Hello" > /dev/kmsg

And if that changes the log-level to "2" instead of the default "4"?

(assuming that I read your patch right, otherwise please correct the
bytes, but use the full sequence which your patch will recognize as an
internal level marker; seems your examples are all not triggering that)

Kay