1 files changed, 3 insertions, 39 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
index d6e9d081c8b1..67c3371723cc 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -807,44 +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 *line, *p;
-	int i;
-	ssize_t ret = -EFAULT;
-	size_t len = iov_length(iv, count);
-
-	line = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (line == NULL)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	/*
-	 * copy all vectors into a single string, to ensure we do
-	 * not interleave our log line with other printk calls
-	 */
-	p = line;
-	for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
-		if (copy_from_user(p, iv[i].iov_base, iv[i].iov_len))
-			goto out;
-		p += iv[i].iov_len;
-	}
-	p[0] = '\0';
-
-	ret = printk("%s", line);
-	/* printk can add a prefix */
-	if (ret > len)
-		ret = len;
-out:
-	kfree(line);
-	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;
@@ -863,7 +825,9 @@ 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 },
+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
+	[11] = { "kmsg", 0644, &kmsg_fops, NULL },
+#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
 	[12] = { "oldmem", 0, &oldmem_fops, NULL },
 #endif