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Message-Id: <20070605.000027.59657229.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:00:27 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: dada1@...mosbay.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] TCP : use LIMIT_NETDEBUG in tcp_retransmit_timer() From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:13:40 +0200 > LIMIT_NETDEBUG allows the admin to disable some warning messages (echo 0 > >/proc/sys/net/core/warnings). > > The "TCP: Treason uncloaked!" message can use this facility. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com> That's pretty difficult to trigger remotely, and the last time we saw a legitimate case of this it was actually a bug in the Linux TCP stack which we've long since fixed. I would rather not let people easily disable this, since it finds bugs and I can't see someone seriously exploiting this to spam your logs. I suppose you disagree :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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