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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	ajax@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Remove a noisy printk
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:51:54 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812191151.55607.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081214200353.GA2994@redhat.com>

On Monday 15 December 2008 06:33:53 Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 06:09:17PM +0100, Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
>  > In a >normal< system one usually does not use raw sockets. So if a root 
>  > process do use raw socket, at least netfilter sends a notification and 
>  > there's a chance that someone take notice it by checking the kernel logs.
> 
> 'normal' systems are irrelevant here. This message is triggerable remotely.

I don't think it can be.  This is for truncated locally-generated outgoing
packets, which can only happen when root is playing with raw sockets.

As you can probably tell, I was the one who wrote this printk :)  IMHO,
one reasonable complaint is sufficient to have it removed, so just remove
it.  If anyone thinks it's valuable, put a static counter < 5 around it
and add pid/comm info.

Cheers,
Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-19  1:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1229033625-30825-1-git-send-email-ajax@redhat.com>
2008-12-12  4:32 ` [PATCH] net: Remove a noisy printk David Miller
2008-12-13 22:13   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-12-14 17:09     ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2008-12-14 18:06       ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-12-14 20:15         ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2008-12-15 12:23           ` Patrick McHardy
2008-12-15 13:25             ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2008-12-15 13:32               ` Patrick McHardy
2008-12-14 20:03       ` Dave Jones
2008-12-16 19:59         ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2008-12-16 20:03           ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-12-16 20:00         ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-12-17  8:26           ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2008-12-19  1:21         ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-01-12  5:02           ` Patrick McHardy

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