Re: [net PATCH] netfilter: only warn once on wrong seqadj usage

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On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 02:10:43PM +0100, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> Avoid potentially spamming the kernel log with WARN splash messages
> when catching wrong usage of seqadj, by simply using WARN_ONCE.
> 
> This is a followup to commit db12cf274353 (netfilter: WARN about
> wrong usage of sequence number adjustments)
> 
> Suggested-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Nitpick found by internal RedHat review process ;-)
> 
>  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_seqadj.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_seqadj.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_seqadj.c
> index b2d38da..f6e2ae9 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_seqadj.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_seqadj.c
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ int nf_ct_seqadj_set(struct nf_conn *ct, enum ip_conntrack_info ctinfo,
>  		return 0;
>  
>  	if (unlikely(!seqadj)) {
> -		WARN(1, "Wrong seqadj usage, missing nfct_seqadj_ext_add()\n");
> +		WARN_ONCE(1, "Missing nfct_seqadj_ext_add() setup call\n");
>  		return 0;

I missed the patch that added the WARN. Since when do we add runtime checks
for API misuse instead of simply letting it crash?

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