This notice fills my boot logs with scary-looking asterisks but doesn't really tell me anything. Let's just remove it; validation errors are already reported separately, so this is just a redundant list of filesystems. $ dmesg | grep VALIDATE [ 0.306256] *** VALIDATE tmpfs *** [ 0.307422] *** VALIDATE proc *** [ 0.308355] *** VALIDATE cgroup *** [ 0.308741] *** VALIDATE cgroup2 *** [ 0.813256] *** VALIDATE bpf *** [ 0.815272] *** VALIDATE ramfs *** [ 0.815665] *** VALIDATE hugetlbfs *** [ 0.876970] *** VALIDATE nfs *** [ 0.877383] *** VALIDATE nfs4 *** Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fs_parser.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/fs_parser.c b/fs/fs_parser.c index 7e6fb43f9541..ab53e42a874a 100644 --- a/fs/fs_parser.c +++ b/fs/fs_parser.c @@ -368,8 +368,6 @@ bool fs_validate_description(const char *name, const struct fs_parameter_spec *param, *p2; bool good = true; - pr_notice("*** VALIDATE %s ***\n", name); - for (param = desc; param->name; param++) { /* Check for duplicate parameter names */ for (p2 = desc; p2 < param; p2++) { -- 2.20.1 -- Kees Cook