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

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Message-Id: <20131231.140000.463004971089550957.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 31 Dec 2013 14:00:00 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nhorman@...driver.com
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

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.
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