> to the log because they come from printk_ratelimit(). So all you've > done is halved the volume of flow to the logs and left a dangling printk > suppressed message that keeps spewing, so I don't think the patch even > does what you describe it as doing ... if you reverse the order of the > operands in the if() it will ... Here's an updated patch with the reversed order. -Andi --- Only print SCSI data direction warning once for a command v2 When I use cdparanoia my logs get spammed a lot by printk: 464 messages suppressed. sg_write: data in/out 30576/30576 bytes for SCSI command 0xbe--guessing data in; program cdparanoia not setting count and/or reply_len properly printk: 1078 messages suppressed. and many more of those. With this patch the message is only printed once for a command in a row. v1->v2: Prevent rate limit messages too (pointed out by jejb) Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/sg.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux/drivers/scsi/sg.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/drivers/scsi/sg.c +++ linux/drivers/scsi/sg.c @@ -602,8 +602,9 @@ sg_write(struct file *filp, const char _ * but is is possible that the app intended SG_DXFER_TO_DEV, because there * is a non-zero input_size, so emit a warning. */ - if (hp->dxfer_direction == SG_DXFER_TO_FROM_DEV) - if (printk_ratelimit()) + if (hp->dxfer_direction == SG_DXFER_TO_FROM_DEV) { + static char cmd[TASK_COMM_LEN]; + if (strcmp(current->comm, cmd) && printk_ratelimit()) { printk(KERN_WARNING "sg_write: data in/out %d/%d bytes for SCSI command 0x%x--" "guessing data in;\n" KERN_WARNING " " @@ -611,6 +612,9 @@ sg_write(struct file *filp, const char _ old_hdr.reply_len - (int)SZ_SG_HEADER, input_size, (unsigned int) cmnd[0], current->comm); + strcpy(cmd, current->comm); + } + } k = sg_common_write(sfp, srp, cmnd, sfp->timeout, blocking); return (k < 0) ? k : count; } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html