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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6 PATCH] visor: Make URB limit error more visible
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:11:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101661884.16787.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041125161619.GD18567@k3.hellgate.ch>

On Iau, 2004-11-25 at 16:16, Roger Luethi wrote:
> There is only one call to dev_dbg in all of visor.c, the rest is dbg or
> dev_err. It already bit us once when warnings didn't turn up in a debug
> log. I would argue that a flood of those warnings will warrant report
> and inspection anyway (broken app, broken driver, or lame DoS attempt),
> so I replaced the dev_dbg with dev_err.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>

Since it is trivially user caused should it not be rate limited or it
becomes a DoS of its own to the syslog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-28 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-16 15:49 [2.6 PATCH] visor: Always do generic_startup Roger Luethi
2004-11-19 17:44 ` Greg KH
2004-11-21  1:23   ` Simon Fowler
2004-11-21  4:08     ` Greg KH
2004-11-21  7:15       ` Simon Fowler
2004-11-22 18:54         ` Greg KH
2004-11-23 19:36   ` [2.6 PATCH] visor: Don't count outstanding URBs twice Roger Luethi
2004-11-23 19:45     ` Greg KH
2004-11-23 20:30       ` Roger Luethi
2004-11-24  0:40         ` Simon Fowler
2004-11-24 23:25     ` Greg KH
2004-11-25 16:16       ` [2.6 PATCH] visor: Make URB limit error more visible Roger Luethi
2004-11-25 18:06         ` Greg KH
2004-11-28 17:11         ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-11-30  0:06           ` Greg KH

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