Some of these changes are cosmetic (repeatedly calling klog.V instead of
reusing the result), others address real issues:
- Logging a message only above a certain verbosity threshold without
recording that verbosity level (if klog.V().Enabled() { klog.Info... }):
this matters when using a logging backend which records the verbosity
level.
- Passing a format string with parameters to a logging function that
doesn't do string formatting.
All of these locations where found by the enhanced logcheck tool from
https://github.com/kubernetes/klog/pull/297.
In some cases it reports false positives, but those can be suppressed with
source code comments.
Kubernetes-commit: edffc700a43e610f641907290a5152ca593bad79
In the following code pattern, the log message will get logged with v=0 in JSON
output although conceptually it has a higher verbosity:
if klog.V(5).Enabled() {
klog.Info("hello world")
}
Having the actual verbosity in the JSON output is relevant, for example for
filtering out only the important info messages. The solution is to use
klog.V(5).Info or something similar.
Whether the outer if is necessary at all depends on how complex the parameters
are. The return value of klog.V can be captured in a variable and be used
multiple times to avoid the overhead for that function call and to avoid
repeating the verbosity level.
Kubernetes-commit: 9eaa2dc554e0c3d4485d4c916dfdbc2f517db2e0
Patrick Ohly
Jordan Liggitt
Davanum Srinivas
Wenjia Zhang
Dr. Stefan Schimanski