From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Don't warn about libpthread's access to kernel.version. When it receives -ENOSYS it will read /proc/sys/kernel/version. If anything else shows up print the sysctl number string. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Cal Peake Cc: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/sysctl.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/sysctl.c~improve-the-remove-sysctl-warnings kernel/sysctl.c --- a/kernel/sysctl.c~improve-the-remove-sysctl-warnings +++ a/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -2669,13 +2669,33 @@ int sysctl_ms_jiffies(ctl_table *table, asmlinkage long sys_sysctl(struct __sysctl_args __user *args) { static int msg_count; + struct __sysctl_args tmp; + int name[CTL_MAXNAME]; + int i; + + /* Read in the sysctl name for better debug message logging */ + if (copy_from_user(&tmp, args, sizeof(tmp))) + return -EFAULT; + if (tmp.nlen <= 0 || tmp.nlen >= CTL_MAXNAME) + return -ENOTDIR; + for (i = 0; i < tmp.nlen; i++) + if (get_user(name[i], tmp.name + i)) + return -EFAULT; + + /* Ignore accesses to kernel.version */ + if ((tmp.nlen == 2) && (name[0] == CTL_KERN) && (name[1] == KERN_VERSION)) + goto out; if (msg_count < 5) { msg_count++; printk(KERN_INFO "warning: process `%s' used the removed sysctl " - "system call\n", current->comm); + "system call with ", current->comm); + for (i = 0; i < tmp.nlen; i++) + printk("%d.", name[i]); + printk("\n"); } +out: return -ENOSYS; } _