Merge branch 'for-5.10-pr_cont-fixup' into for-linus

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index fe64a49344bf..bc1e3b5a97bd 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -528,8 +528,8 @@ static int log_store(u32 caller_id, int facility, int level,
 	if (dev_info)
 		memcpy(&r.info->dev_info, dev_info, sizeof(r.info->dev_info));
 
-	/* insert message */
-	if ((flags & LOG_CONT) || !(flags & LOG_NEWLINE))
+	/* A message without a trailing newline can be continued. */
+	if (!(flags & LOG_NEWLINE))
 		prb_commit(&e);
 	else
 		prb_final_commit(&e);