From 0e009be8a0c2309f3696df70f72ef0075aa34c9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 23:52:11 -0800 Subject: [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 Cc: Cal Peake Cc: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sysctl.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 8bff2c18fb5a..0c8e805bbd6f 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -2680,13 +2680,33 @@ int sysctl_ms_jiffies(ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen, 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; } -- cgit v1.2.3