netdev - Re: [PATCH] sk-filter: Rate-limit WARNing, print dbg info.

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Message-Id: <20110517.153922.340820072009412798.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 17 May 2011 15:39:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	greearb@...delatech.com
Cc:	joe@...ches.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sk-filter: Rate-limit WARNing, print dbg info.

From: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 12:34:01 -0700

> On 05/17/2011 12:23 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Joe Perches<joe@...ches.com>
>> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 11:52:29 -0700
>>
>>> On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 11:30 -0700, greearb@...delatech.com wrote:
>>>> From: Ben Greear<greearb@...delatech.com>
>>>> A mis-configured filter can spam the logs with
>>>> lots of stack traces.  Rate-limit the warnings
>>>> and add printout of the bogus filter information.
>>>> -			WARN_ON(1);
>>>> +			if (net_ratelimit()) {
>>>> + pr_err("filter: Unknown code: %hu jt: %u tf: %u"
>>>> +				       " k: %u\n",
>>>> + fentry->code, (unsigned int)(fentry->jt),
>>>> + (unsigned int)(fentry->jf), fentry->k);
>>>> +				WARN_ON(1);
>>>> +			}
>>>
>>> Maybe just using WARN is better.
>>
>> Yep, it looks better to me.
> 
> You want to just take his, or shall I re-spin it?

Respin.
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