Re: name_count maxed, losing inode data: dev=00:05, inode=5221

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 at 13:50, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> This is all from the audit subsystem; it's not an ext3 issue AFAICT.
> 
> Yeah, after grepping for it I've seen this now. However, I still don't 
> understand why it's printed at all and if it's something to worry about. 
> Well, probably not, since it's printed with KERN_DEBUG, but then these 
> messages should be supressed, no?
> 
> Also, can we alter the prinkt somewhat so it says where the message is 
> coming from? Something like:

Sure, good idea - can you send that patch upstream, cc: eparis@xxxxxxxxxx ?

-Eric

> diff --git a/linux-2.6-git/kernel/auditsc.c.orig b/linux-2.6-git/kernel/auditsc.c
> index fc0f928..17d8708 100644
> --- a/linux-2.6-git/kernel/auditsc.c.orig
> +++ b/linux-2.6-git/kernel/auditsc.c
> @@ -1893,14 +1893,14 @@ static int audit_inc_name_count(struct audit_context *context,
>  {
>  	if (context->name_count >= AUDIT_NAMES) {
>  		if (inode)
> -			printk(KERN_DEBUG "name_count maxed, losing inode data: "
> +			printk(KERN_DEBUG "audit: name_count maxed, losing inode data: "
>  			       "dev=%02x:%02x, inode=%lu\n",
>  			       MAJOR(inode->i_sb->s_dev),
>  			       MINOR(inode->i_sb->s_dev),
>  			       inode->i_ino);
>  
>  		else
> -			printk(KERN_DEBUG "name_count maxed, losing inode data\n");
> +			printk(KERN_DEBUG "audit: name_count maxed, losing inode data\n");
>  		return 1;
>  	}
>  	context->name_count++;
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Christian.

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