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authorLeonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com>2017-07-12 14:34:19 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-12 16:26:01 -0700
commit46d10a094353c05144f3b0530516bdac3ce7c435 (patch)
tree5bb6bf3681ce567b1062da6211bb3fbdb15d23ca /scripts/gdb
parentc454756f47277b651ad41a5a163499294529e35d (diff)
scripts/gdb: lx-dmesg: use explicit encoding=utf8 errors=replace
Use errors=replace because it is never desirable for lx-dmesg to fail on string decoding errors, not even if the log buffer is corrupt and we show incorrect info. The kernel will sometimes print utf8, for example the copyright symbol from jffs2. In order to make this work specify 'utf8' everywhere because python2 otherwise defaults to 'ascii'. In theory the second errors='replace' is not be required because everything that can be decoded as utf8 should also be encodable back to utf8. But it's better to be extra safe here. It's worth noting that this is definitely not true for encoding='ascii', unknown characters are replaced with U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER and they fail to encode back to ascii. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/acee067f3345954ed41efb77b80eebdc038619c6.1498481469.git.leonard.crestez@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com> Acked-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Kieran Bingham <kieran@ksquared.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/gdb')
-rw-r--r--scripts/gdb/linux/dmesg.py13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/dmesg.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/dmesg.py
index f5a030333dfd..6d2e09a2ad2f 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/linux/dmesg.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/dmesg.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#
import gdb
+import sys
from linux import utils
@@ -52,13 +53,19 @@ class LxDmesg(gdb.Command):
continue
text_len = utils.read_u16(log_buf[pos + 10:pos + 12])
- text = log_buf[pos + 16:pos + 16 + text_len].decode()
+ text = log_buf[pos + 16:pos + 16 + text_len].decode(
+ encoding='utf8', errors='replace')
time_stamp = utils.read_u64(log_buf[pos:pos + 8])
for line in text.splitlines():
- gdb.write("[{time:12.6f}] {line}\n".format(
+ msg = u"[{time:12.6f}] {line}\n".format(
time=time_stamp / 1000000000.0,
- line=line))
+ line=line)
+ # With python2 gdb.write will attempt to convert unicode to
+ # ascii and might fail so pass an utf8-encoded str instead.
+ if sys.hexversion < 0x03000000:
+ msg = msg.encode(encoding='utf8', errors='replace')
+ gdb.write(msg)
pos += length