Contrary to what a comment claimed, the ASYNC_SPD flags and custom
divisor can be set by a non-privileged user so rate limit the
deprecation notice as was intended.
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
index 13bfd5dcffce..f534a40aebde 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
@@ -954,11 +954,10 @@ static int uart_set_info(struct tty_struct *tty, struct tty_port *port,
old_custom_divisor != uport->custom_divisor) {
/*
* If they're setting up a custom divisor or speed,
- * instead of clearing it, then bitch about it. No
- * need to rate-limit; it's CAP_SYS_ADMIN only.
+ * instead of clearing it, then bitch about it.
*/
if (uport->flags & UPF_SPD_MASK) {
- dev_notice(uport->dev,
+ dev_notice_ratelimited(uport->dev,
"%s sets custom speed on %s. This is deprecated.\n",
current->comm,
tty_name(port->tty));
--
2.13.0
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