On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 10:58 PM Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Calling the osf_mount system call with an invalid typenr value will
> spam the kernel log with error messages. Reduce the spamming by making
> it a ratelimited printk. Issue found when exercising with the stress-ng
> enosys system call stressor.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
> index 8bbeebb73cf0..2367a385d726 100644
> --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
> +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
> @@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(osf_mount, unsigned long, typenr, const char __user *, path,
> break;
> default:
> retval = -EINVAL;
> - printk("osf_mount(%ld, %x)\n", typenr, flag);
> + printk_ratelimited("osf_mount(%ld, %x)\n", typenr, flag);
> }
>
> return retval;
> --
> 2.33.1
>
Thanks for the patch! This was included in my pull request today and
is now upstream in Linus' tree.
