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Patch "kernel/panic.c: add missing \n" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

PATCH [email protected] 1 participant 1 message Jul 3, 2017 Stable branch

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

kernel/panic.c: add missing \n

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
kernel-panic.c-add-missing-n.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From foo@baz Mon Jul 3 13:22:16 CEST 2017

From: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:18:29 -0800
Subject: kernel/panic.c: add missing \n

From: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit ff7a28a074ccbea999dadbb58c46212cf90984c6 ]

When a system panics, the "Rebooting in X seconds.." message is never printed because it lacks a new line. Fix it.

---
 kernel/panic.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
kernel/panic.c +1 -1
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
 		 * Delay timeout seconds before rebooting the machine.
 		 * We can't use the "normal" timers since we just panicked.
 		 */
-		pr_emerg("Rebooting in %d seconds..", panic_timeout);
+		pr_emerg("Rebooting in %d seconds..\n", panic_timeout);
 
 		for (i = 0; i < panic_timeout * 1000; i += PANIC_TIMER_STEP) {
 			touch_nmi_watchdog();

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/kernel-panic.c-add-missing-n.patch