Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2014 20:04:09 +0200 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: WARN in do_rt_tgsigqueueinfo() |
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On 05/15, Mateusz Guzik wrote: > > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:54:15AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > I'm of the opinion that a user-triggerable WARN is a bug, but aparently > > not everyone else feels that way.
I didn't really like this WARN_ONCE() when I looked at the patch which added it, but I didn't try to argue.
> imho warning sysadmins about userspace using deprecated stuff is fine as > long as users are not able to spam the console with it.
Agreed,
> Warning reported here just looks scary and provides no information for > sysadmins so I guess it hould be changed.
Again, agreed.
So imo we should either remove it, ot turn it into
pr_warn_once("something meaningful");
Oleg.
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