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Date:   Tue, 25 Sep 2018 22:31:43 +0900
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] printk: Fix panic caused by passing log_buf_len
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On (09/25/18 14:23), Petr Mladek wrote:
> The 32GB was mentioned as an example one year ego. This is not enough
> for a new syscall from my point of view.

I agree. I didn't think of syslog(); was merely thinking about logbuf
and flushing it to the consoles. syslog() stuff is a bit complex. We
sort of don't expect user space to allocate 64G to read all log_buf
messages, do we.

I'm wondering if we can do something like this

---

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index cf275f4d7912..1b48b61da8fe 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -1110,9 +1110,15 @@ static void __init log_buf_len_update(unsigned size)
 /* save requested log_buf_len since it's too early to process it */
 static int __init log_buf_len_setup(char *str)
 {
-	unsigned size = memparse(str, &str);
+	u64 size = memparse(str, &str);
 
-	log_buf_len_update(size);
+	if (size > UINT_MAX) {
+		size = UINT_MAX;
+		pr_err("log_buf over 4G is not supported. "
+			"Please contact printk maintainers.\n");
+	}
+
+	log_buf_len_update((unsigned int)size);
 
 	return 0;
 }

---

So we could know that "the day has come".

	-ss