Re: [PATCH] net: Remove a noisy printk

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Tuesday 2008-12-16 20:59, Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
>
>The packets in question are shorter than the IP header. How would those be 
>delivered to the host? On the LAN it might be possible to forge such 
>packets with proper HW address and be delivered. But wouldn't the network 
>card or the stack itself throw away the packets??

Yes.

>> The message is also utterly useless. What kind of action would you take
>> to a few gigabytes of "ipt_hook: happy cracking.\n" ?
>> There's no IP address logged, or any other useful information.
>
>As the packet is shorter than the IP header, what could be logged, besides 
>the fact that something worth to investigate is happening?

Find the offending process? printk current->pid.

'current' should be available in the output path,
but don't quote me on that.
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