As noted by Paolo Abeni, pr_warn doesn't generate any splat and can still preserve the warning to the user that feature downgrade occurred. We likely cannot introduce other kinds of checks / enforcement here because syzbot can generate different genl versions to the datapath. Reported-by: syzbot+31cde0bef4bbf8ba2d86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 44da5ae5fbea ("openvswitch: Drop user features if old user space attempted to create datapath") Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c index c8a9075ddd0a..155263e73512 100644 --- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c +++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c @@ -1616,7 +1616,8 @@ static void ovs_dp_reset_user_features(struct sk_buff *skb, if (IS_ERR(dp)) return; - WARN(dp->user_features, "Dropping previously announced user features\n"); + pr_warn("%s: Dropping previously announced user features\n", + ovs_dp_name(dp)); dp->user_features = 0; } -- 2.34.3