From: Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 15:54:34 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: logger: fix -p kern.* priority is accepted regression
X-Git-Tag: v2.27-rc1~395^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d4c814b18a489dc2aa41e768e6e3cad2f16a8af3;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

logger: fix -p kern.* priority is accepted regression

Pre 2.26, syslog(3) was used for local logging, and it did not
accept kern.* priorities. This is re-enabled by the patch.
---

diff --git a/misc-utils/logger.c b/misc-utils/logger.c
index 5ec722efe2..06f0759b5d 100644
--- a/misc-utils/logger.c
+++ b/misc-utils/logger.c
@@ -173,6 +173,8 @@ static int pencode(char *s)
 	level = decode(s, prioritynames);
 	if (level < 0)
 		errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("unknown priority name: %s"), s);
+	if(facility == LOG_KERN)
+		facility = LOG_USER; /* kern is forbidden */
 	return ((level & LOG_PRIMASK) | (facility & LOG_FACMASK));
 }