Counting text lines in a record simply involves counting the number of newline characters (+1). However, it is searching the full data block for newline characters, even though the text data can be (and often is) a subset of that area. Since the extra area in the data block was never initialized, the result is that extra newlines may be seen and counted.
Restrict newline searching to the text data length. Fixes: b6cf8b3f3312 ("printk: add lockless ringbuffer") Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogn...@linutronix.de> --- kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c b/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c index 6704f06e0417..8a7b7362c0dd 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c @@ -1718,7 +1718,7 @@ static bool copy_data(struct prb_data_ring *data_ring, /* Caller interested in the line count? */ if (line_count) - *line_count = count_lines(data, data_size); + *line_count = count_lines(data, len); /* Caller interested in the data content? */ if (!buf || !buf_size) -- 2.20.1