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| author | Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> | 2006-12-06 20:37:42 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org> | 2006-12-07 08:39:38 -0800 |
| commit | c36264dfb2d6fa6383082de0a1bba8e12b477da1 (patch) | |
| tree | 25efc8365544d12974f0633ad46f619bfbf087e1 | |
| parent | 44ddc4f5673a62c9ecdbb7b502fe7b8206b0f945 (diff) | |
| download | linux-c36264dfb2d6fa6383082de0a1bba8e12b477da1.tar.bz2 | |
[PATCH] remove the syslog interface when printk is disabled
Attempts to read() from the non-existent dmesg buffer will return zero and
userspace tends to get stuck in a busyloop.
So just remove /dev/kmsg altogether if CONFIG_PRINTK=n.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/Makefile | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/proc_misc.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/printk.c | 7 |
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/Makefile b/fs/proc/Makefile index 7431d7ba2d09..f6c776272572 100644 --- a/fs/proc/Makefile +++ b/fs/proc/Makefile @@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ proc-y := nommu.o task_nommu.o proc-$(CONFIG_MMU) := mmu.o task_mmu.o proc-y += inode.o root.o base.o generic.o array.o \ - kmsg.o proc_tty.o proc_misc.o + proc_tty.o proc_misc.o proc-$(CONFIG_PROC_KCORE) += kcore.o proc-$(CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE) += vmcore.o proc-$(CONFIG_PROC_DEVICETREE) += proc_devtree.o +proc-$(CONFIG_PRINTK) += kmsg.o diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c b/fs/proc/proc_misc.c index 93c43b676e59..51815cece6f3 100644 --- a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_misc.c @@ -696,9 +696,11 @@ void __init proc_misc_init(void) proc_symlink("mounts", NULL, "self/mounts"); /* And now for trickier ones */ +#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK entry = create_proc_entry("kmsg", S_IRUSR, &proc_root); if (entry) entry->proc_fops = &proc_kmsg_operations; +#endif create_seq_entry("devices", 0, &proc_devinfo_operations); create_seq_entry("cpuinfo", 0, &proc_cpuinfo_operations); #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index 66426552fbfe..ba59c2a30ed0 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -631,12 +631,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vprintk); asmlinkage long sys_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len) { - return 0; -} - -int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len) -{ - return 0; + return -ENOSYS; } static void call_console_drivers(unsigned long start, unsigned long end) |