netdev - [PATCH] xfrm: use printk instead of WARN for bad policy reporting

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jul 2016 10:32:35 +0200
From:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] xfrm: use printk instead of WARN for bad policy reporting

AFAICT this message is just printed whenever input validation fails.
This is a normal failure and we shouldn't be dumping the stack over it.

Looks like it was originally a printk that was maybe incorrectly
upgraded to a WARN:

commit 62db5cfd70b1ef53aa21f144a806fe3b78c84fab
Author: stephen hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date:   Wed May 12 06:37:06 2010 +0000

    xfrm: add severity to printk

Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>
---
 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
index 4fb04ce..0b81bfc 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
@@ -2150,7 +2150,7 @@ static int xfrm_add_acquire(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 	return 0;
 
 bad_policy:
-	WARN(1, "BAD policy passed\n");
+	printk(KERN_WARNING "xfrm_user: bad policy passed\n");
 free_state:
 	kfree(x);
 nomem:
-- 
1.9.1