netdev - Re: [PATCHv2] net: bpf: reject invalid shifts

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Date:	Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:34:48 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:	Rabin Vincent <rabin@....in>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] net: bpf: reject invalid shifts

On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 11:53 -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:48:38AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> > 
> > I believe we should add a one time warning to give a clue to poor users
> > hitting this problem.
> 
> you mean like warn_on_once() here?
> Makes sense I guess.


pr_err(DEPRECATED, "%s (pid %d) "
                   "invalid shift in BPF program.\n"
                   current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));

Or something like that.