Re: remove unnecessary ftrace WARN_ONCE's.

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Apr 20 2012 - 14:11:35 EST


On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 13:03 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:31:32PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > These warnings are trivially triggerable by any user, and serve no useful purpose afaics
> > Just -EINVAL and be done.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > index ed7b5d1..a745317 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > @@ -4136,13 +4136,11 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos,
> > return -ENOMEM;
> >
> > if (*ppos & (PAGE_SIZE - 1)) {
> > - WARN_ONCE(1, "Ftrace: previous read must page-align\n");
> > ret = -EINVAL;
> > goto out;
> > }
> >
> > if (len & (PAGE_SIZE - 1)) {
> > - WARN_ONCE(1, "Ftrace: splice_read should page-align\n");
> > if (len < PAGE_SIZE) {
> > ret = -EINVAL;
> > goto out;
> > --
>
> Anyone want to pick this up, or shall I just send it to Linus myself ?

I can pick this up, if you don't mind them going in on 3.5. As they are
only WARN_ONCE errors, I don't think they are that big of a deal.

-- Steve


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