| Summary: | klogd incorrectly splits up kernel messages | ||
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| Product: | Busybox | Reporter: | Johan van Selst <johans> |
| Component: | Other | Assignee: | unassigned |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | busybox-cvs |
| Priority: | P5 | ||
| Version: | 1.17.x | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Host: | Target: | ||
| Build: | |||
| Attachments: | Patch klogd to assemble partial error lines into a single syslog message. | ||
Fixed a bit differently in http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=0016bcee374606e79c48a1a97479b0521f947942 Thanks! Fix will be in 1.18.x |
Created attachment 2611 [details] Patch klogd to assemble partial error lines into a single syslog message. Busybox klogd handles newlines in kernel messages, splitting such a message up in multiple lines (messages) for syslog. But it does not handle partial messages _without_ a newline. The kernel sometimes prints error messages in chunks (e.g. 3 or 4 prints for a single error line); due to this bug they and up as multiple error messages (lines) in syslog. This happens for example with register dumps when an application crashes. The fix is to keep collecting partial messages until either a newline is received, or the internal message buffer is full. A simple patch that does this, is attached. Please include this (or similar patch) in the next release.