linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: mpt3sas: make sysfs error messages ratelimited

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Message-ID: <yq1fty8sjpn.fsf@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon, 17 Sep 2018 02:48:20 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Sathya Prakash <sathya.prakash@...adcom.com>,
        Chaitra P B <chaitra.basappa@...adcom.com>,
        Suganath Prabu Subramani 
        <suganath-prabu.subramani@...adcom.com>,
        "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@...adcom.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: mpt3sas: make sysfs error messages ratelimited


Colin,

> It is possible to heavily spam the kernel logs with messages by
> excessive reading of the mpt3sas sysfs files.  Make the error messages
> ratelimited to reduce the spamming effect.

That's a bug. Please just nuke all of these.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering