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From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/6] sysctl: Warn when a clamped sysctl parameter is set out of range
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:04:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ddfd63f8-f061-72ab-744e-1e6cf9c764b7@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180312140027.97db31d5dfc5c5f52a7c19a3@linux-foundation.org>

On 03/12/2018 05:00 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:15:41 -0400 Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Even with clamped sysctl parameters, it is still not that straight
>> forward to figure out the exact range of those parameters. One may
>> try to write extreme parameter values to see if they get clamped.
>> To make it easier, a warning with the expected range will now be
>> printed into the kernel ring buffer when a clamped sysctl parameter
>> receives an out of range value.
>>
>> The pr_warn_ratelimited() macro is used to limit the number of warning
>> messages that can be printed within a given period of time.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> +#ifdef pr_fmt
>> +#undef pr_fmt
>> +#endif
>> +#define pr_fmt(fmt)	"sysctl: " fmt
> Why is it necessary to undefine pr_fmt?  That's a somewhat unusual
> thing to do.
>
>
Because it is defined in the printk.h. I should have put the pr_fmt
definition before the iinclude file to eliminate the need to undefine it.

-Longman

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-12 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-12 20:15 [PATCH v4 0/6] ipc: Clamp *mni to the real IPCMNI limit Waiman Long
2018-03-12 20:15 ` [PATCH v4 1/6] sysctl: Add flags to support min/max range clamping Waiman Long
2018-03-12 20:44   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-03-12 20:48     ` Waiman Long
2018-03-13 17:46   ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-03-13 18:49     ` Waiman Long
2018-03-12 20:15 ` [PATCH v4 2/6] proc/sysctl: Check for invalid flags bits Waiman Long
2018-03-12 20:46   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-03-12 20:54     ` Waiman Long
2018-03-12 20:59       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-03-12 21:02         ` Waiman Long
2018-03-12 20:52   ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-12 22:12     ` Waiman Long
2018-03-12 22:42       ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-12 20:15 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] sysctl: Warn when a clamped sysctl parameter is set out of range Waiman Long
2018-03-12 20:50   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-03-12 21:07     ` Waiman Long
2018-03-12 21:00   ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-12 21:04     ` Waiman Long [this message]
2018-03-12 20:15 ` [PATCH v4 4/6] ipc: Clamp msgmni and shmmni to the real IPCMNI limit Waiman Long
2018-03-13 18:17   ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-03-13 18:39     ` Waiman Long
2018-03-13 20:29       ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-03-13 21:06         ` Waiman Long
2018-03-15  0:49           ` [RFC][PATCH] ipc: Remove IPCMNI Eric W. Biederman
2018-03-15 17:02             ` Waiman Long
2018-03-15 19:00               ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-03-15 21:46                 ` Waiman Long
2018-03-29  2:14                   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2018-03-29  8:47                     ` Manfred Spraul
2018-03-29 10:56                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-29 18:07                         ` Manfred Spraul
2018-03-29 18:52                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-03-29 19:32                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-29 20:08                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-03-15 19:45             ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-12 20:15 ` [PATCH v4 5/6] ipc: Clamp semmni to the real IPCMNI limit Waiman Long
2018-03-12 20:52   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-03-12 20:59     ` Waiman Long
2018-03-12 20:15 ` [PATCH v4 6/6] test_sysctl: Add range clamping test Waiman Long
2018-03-12 20:53   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-03-12 21:00     ` Waiman Long

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