linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] sctp: Consolidate and ratelimit deprecation warnings

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Message-ID: <1388520494.2259.27.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:08:14 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	nhorman@...driver.com, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
	vyasevich@...il.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] sctp: Consolidate and ratelimit deprecation
 warnings

On Tue, 2013-12-31 at 14:00 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:29:41 -0500
> 
> > The SCTP protocol has several deprecation warnings in its setsockopt path that
> > can be triggered by unprivlidged users.  Since these are not ratelimited, we can
> > spam the logs quite easily here.  Since these are all deprecation warnings, and
> > that type of warning isn't uncommon in the rest of the kernel, lets make a
> > common pr_warn_deprecated macro to produce somewhat generalized ratelimited
> > deprecation warnings easily
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
> 
> Series applied, thanks Neil.
> 
> Please consider Ben's suggestion to provide the offending command string
> in the log output.

If something like the printk extension described in this thread
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1620126 is ever accepted,
then it should be pretty easy to add later.



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