On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 04:20:02PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> 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>
Excellent, these messages haven't been useful in helping users diagnose
problems and they look quite noisy considering how mundane they are.
Reviewed-by: Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks
> ---
> 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
