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From a3c1f7bcc133f9a024577abed319b5f9dfef0d95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 14:05:56 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] printk: fix return value of printk.devkmsg __setup handler

References: SLE Realtime Extension
Patch-mainline: v5.18-rc1
Git-commit: b665eae7a788c5e2bc10f9ac3c0137aa0ad1fc97

If an invalid option value is used with "printk.devkmsg=<value>",
it is silently ignored.
If a valid option value is used, it is honored but the wrong return
value (0) is used, indicating that the command line option had an
error and was not handled. This string is not added to init's
environment strings due to init/main.c::unknown_bootoption()
checking for a '.' in the boot option string and then considering
that string to be an "Unused module parameter".

Print a warning message if a bad option string is used.
Always return 1 from the __setup handler to indicate that the command
line option has been handled.

Fixes: 750afe7babd1 ("printk: add kernel parameter to control writes to /dev/kmsg")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Igor Zhbanov <i.zhbanov@omprussia.ru>
Link: lore.kernel.org/r/64644a2f-4a20-bab3-1e15-3b2cdd0defe3@omprussia.ru
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220228220556.23484-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
---
 kernel/printk/printk.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 62e680944685..f284fd0615dc 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -152,8 +152,10 @@ static int __control_devkmsg(char *str)
 
 static int __init control_devkmsg(char *str)
 {
-	if (__control_devkmsg(str) < 0)
+	if (__control_devkmsg(str) < 0) {
+		pr_warn("printk.devkmsg: bad option string '%s'\n", str);
 		return 1;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Set sysctl string accordingly:
@@ -172,7 +174,7 @@ static int __init control_devkmsg(char *str)
 	 */
 	devkmsg_log |= DEVKMSG_LOG_MASK_LOCK;
 
-	return 0;
+	return 1;
 }
 __setup("printk.devkmsg=", control_devkmsg);