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Commit eb02dac9 authored by Kay Sievers's avatar Kay Sievers Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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kmsg: /proc/kmsg - support reading of partial log records

Restore support for partial reads of any size on /proc/kmsg, in case the
supplied read buffer is smaller than the record size.

Some people seem to think is is ia good idea to run:
  $ dd if=/proc/kmsg bs=1 of=...
as a klog bridge.

Resolves-bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44211


Reported-by: default avatarJukka Ollila <jiiksteri@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 68b6507d
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