[PATCH] Improve the removed sysctl warnings
Don't warn about libpthread's access to kernel.version. When it receives
-ENOSYS it will read /proc/sys/kernel/version.
If anything else shows up print the sysctl number string.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 8bff2c1..0c8e805 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2680,13 +2680,33 @@
asmlinkage long sys_sysctl(struct __sysctl_args __user *args)
{
static int msg_count;
+ struct __sysctl_args tmp;
+ int name[CTL_MAXNAME];
+ int i;
+
+ /* Read in the sysctl name for better debug message logging */
+ if (copy_from_user(&tmp, args, sizeof(tmp)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ if (tmp.nlen <= 0 || tmp.nlen >= CTL_MAXNAME)
+ return -ENOTDIR;
+ for (i = 0; i < tmp.nlen; i++)
+ if (get_user(name[i], tmp.name + i))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ /* Ignore accesses to kernel.version */
+ if ((tmp.nlen == 2) && (name[0] == CTL_KERN) && (name[1] == KERN_VERSION))
+ goto out;
if (msg_count < 5) {
msg_count++;
printk(KERN_INFO
"warning: process `%s' used the removed sysctl "
- "system call\n", current->comm);
+ "system call with ", current->comm);
+ for (i = 0; i < tmp.nlen; i++)
+ printk("%d.", name[i]);
+ printk("\n");
}
+out:
return -ENOSYS;
}
