linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] selinux: downgrade two printks to KERN

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Date:	Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:00:20 -0400
From:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selinux: downgrade two printks to KERN_DEBUG

They shouldn't be there at all and it was a big screw up on my part that
they were left in the committed code.  I already applied but haven't
sent or pushed a patch to remove these.  Thanks Paul!

-Eric

On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 11:03 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> A recent (Fedora Rawhide) selinux policy update triggers this error:
>     filename_trans_read: nel=0
> 
> But there seems to be no reason why filename_trans_read() prints this
> message (and a similar message) at KERN_ERR level. So downgrade it to
> KERN_DEBUG level.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
> ---
> Compile tested only.
> 
>  security/selinux/ss/policydb.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
> index e7b850a..8e9cc8d10 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
> @@ -1819,7 +1819,7 @@ static int filename_trans_read(struct policydb *p, void *fp)
>  		goto out;
>  	nel = le32_to_cpu(buf[0]);
>  
> -	printk(KERN_ERR "%s: nel=%d\n", __func__, nel);
> +	printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: nel=%d\n", __func__, nel);
>  
>  	last = p->filename_trans;
>  	while (last && last->next)
> @@ -1857,7 +1857,7 @@ static int filename_trans_read(struct policydb *p, void *fp)
>  			goto out;
>  		name[len] = 0;
>  
> -		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: ft=%p ft->name=%p ft->name=%s\n", __func__, ft, ft->name, ft->name);
> +		printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: ft=%p ft->name=%p ft->name=%s\n", __func__, ft, ft->name, ft->name);
>  
>  		rc = next_entry(buf, fp, sizeof(u32) * 4);
>  		if (rc)


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