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x86: Remove spurious printk level from segfault message
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Since commit 5fd29d6 ("printk: clean up handling of log-levels
and newlines"), the kernel logs segfaults like:

    <6>gnome-power-man[24509]: segfault at 20 ip 00007f9d4950465a sp 00007fffbb50fc70 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.2103.0[7f9d494f7000+45000]

with the extra "<6>" being KERN_INFO.  This happens because the
printk in show_signal_msg() started with KERN_CONT and then
used "%s" to pass in the real level; and KERN_CONT is no longer
an empty string, and printk only pays attention to the level at
the very beginning of the format string.

Therefore, remove the KERN_CONT from this printk, since it is
now actively causing problems (and never really made any
sense).

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@digitalvampire.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <874otjitkj.fsf@shaolin.home.digitalvampire.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Roland Dreier authored and Ingo Molnar committed Jul 11, 2009
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion arch/x86/mm/fault.c
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Expand Up @@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ show_signal_msg(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
if (!printk_ratelimit())
return;

printk(KERN_CONT "%s%s[%d]: segfault at %lx ip %p sp %p error %lx",
printk("%s%s[%d]: segfault at %lx ip %p sp %p error %lx",
task_pid_nr(tsk) > 1 ? KERN_INFO : KERN_EMERG,
tsk->comm, task_pid_nr(tsk), address,
(void *)regs->ip, (void *)regs->sp, error_code);
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