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

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Date:	Thu, 2 Jan 2014 09:31:35 -0500
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	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, Dec 31, 2013 at 02:00:00PM -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.
> 
Of course, I'll take care of it this week after I dig through all the holiday
email.
Neil

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