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[PATCH] nfsservctl(): remove user-triggerable printk

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A user can use nfsservctl() to spam the logs.

This can happen because the arguments to the nfsservctl() system call are
versioned.  This is a good thing.  However, when a bad version is detected,
the kernel prints a message and then returns an error.

Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Peter Staubach 2006-03-16 23:04:02 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 5b40dc780e
commit 85c6932ef0
1 changed files with 1 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -98,10 +98,8 @@ asmlinkage sys_nfsservctl(int cmd, struct nfsctl_arg __user *arg, void __user *r
if (copy_from_user(&version, &arg->ca_version, sizeof(int)))
return -EFAULT;
if (version != NFSCTL_VERSION) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "nfsd: incompatible version in syscall.\n");
if (version != NFSCTL_VERSION)
return -EINVAL;
}
if (cmd < 0 || cmd >= sizeof(map)/sizeof(map[0]) || !map[cmd].name)
return -EINVAL;