1 files changed, 1 insertions, 60 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
index cf56614479ef..0e7fbfcbd6e6 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -807,65 +807,6 @@ static const struct file_operations oldmem_fops = {
 };
 #endif
 
-static ssize_t kmsg_writev(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iv,
-			   unsigned long count, loff_t pos)
-{
-	char *buf, *line;
-	int i;
-	int level = default_message_loglevel;
-	int facility = 1;	/* LOG_USER */
-	size_t len = iov_length(iv, count);
-	ssize_t ret = len;
-
-	if (len > 1024)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	buf = kmalloc(len+1, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (buf == NULL)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	line = buf;
-	for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
-		if (copy_from_user(line, iv[i].iov_base, iv[i].iov_len))
-			goto out;
-		line += iv[i].iov_len;
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * Extract and skip the syslog prefix <[0-9]*>. Coming from userspace
-	 * the decimal value represents 32bit, the lower 3 bit are the log
-	 * level, the rest are the log facility.
-	 *
-	 * If no prefix or no userspace facility is specified, we
-	 * enforce LOG_USER, to be able to reliably distinguish
-	 * kernel-generated messages from userspace-injected ones.
-	 */
-	line = buf;
-	if (line[0] == '<') {
-		char *endp = NULL;
-
-		i = simple_strtoul(line+1, &endp, 10);
-		if (endp && endp[0] == '>') {
-			level = i & 7;
-			if (i >> 3)
-				facility = i >> 3;
-			endp++;
-			len -= endp - line;
-			line = endp;
-		}
-	}
-	line[len] = '\0';
-
-	printk_emit(facility, level, NULL, 0, "%s", line);
-out:
-	kfree(buf);
-	return ret;
-}
-
-static const struct file_operations kmsg_fops = {
-	.aio_write = kmsg_writev,
-	.llseek = noop_llseek,
-};
-
 static const struct memdev {
 	const char *name;
 	umode_t mode;
@@ -884,7 +825,7 @@ static const struct memdev {
 	 [7] = { "full", 0666, &full_fops, NULL },
 	 [8] = { "random", 0666, &random_fops, NULL },
 	 [9] = { "urandom", 0666, &urandom_fops, NULL },
-	[11] = { "kmsg", 0, &kmsg_fops, NULL },
+	[11] = { "kmsg", 0644, &kmsg_fops, NULL },
 #ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
 	[12] = { "oldmem", 0, &oldmem_fops, NULL },
 #endif