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| author | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2011-08-08 06:22:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-08-09 18:22:22 -0700 |
| commit | f2c0d0266cc5eb36a4aa44944b4096ec121490aa (patch) | |
| tree | 1f3ec14316bf428e278c06059868c85c87df53cb /kernel/printk.c | |
| parent | 9f50fad65b87a8776ae989ca059ad6c17925dfc3 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-f2c0d0266cc5eb36a4aa44944b4096ec121490aa.tar.gz lwn-f2c0d0266cc5eb36a4aa44944b4096ec121490aa.zip | |
cap_syslog: don't use WARN_ONCE for CAP_SYS_ADMIN deprecation warning
syslog-ng versions before 3.3.0beta1 (2011-05-12) assume that
CAP_SYS_ADMIN is sufficient to access syslog, so ever since CAP_SYSLOG
was introduced (2010-11-25) they have triggered a warning.
Commit ee24aebffb75 ("cap_syslog: accept CAP_SYS_ADMIN for now")
improved matters a little by making syslog-ng work again, just keeping
the WARN_ONCE(). But still, this is a warning that writes a stack trace
we don't care about to syslog, sets a taint flag, and alarms sysadmins
when nothing worse has happened than use of an old userspace with a
recent kernel.
Convert the WARN_ONCE to a printk_once to avoid that while continuing to
give userspace developers a hint that this is an unwanted
backward-compatibility feature and won't be around forever.
Reported-by: Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de>
Reported-by: Niels <zorglub_olsen@hotmail.com>
Reported-by: Paweł Sikora <pluto@agmk.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Liked-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/printk.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/printk.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index 37dff3429adb..836a2ae0ac31 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -318,8 +318,10 @@ static int check_syslog_permissions(int type, bool from_file) return 0; /* For historical reasons, accept CAP_SYS_ADMIN too, with a warning */ if (capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) { - WARN_ONCE(1, "Attempt to access syslog with CAP_SYS_ADMIN " - "but no CAP_SYSLOG (deprecated).\n"); + printk_once(KERN_WARNING "%s (%d): " + "Attempt to access syslog with CAP_SYS_ADMIN " + "but no CAP_SYSLOG (deprecated).\n", + current->comm, task_pid_nr(current)); return 0; } return -EPERM; |