cap_syslog: don't use WARN_ONCE for CAP_SYS_ADMIN deprecation warning
commite21ed1cebed09df11b4bf7809fd6d69b25457127
authorJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Mon, 8 Aug 2011 04:22:43 +0000 (8 06:22 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:18:57 +0000 (3 09:18 -0800)
tree0946eb8de0678bd263d03ae8d6f124eb725fd636
parent7e2d7afcbacf7683c72e98980c6a9284a5a2a01c
cap_syslog: don't use WARN_ONCE for CAP_SYS_ADMIN deprecation warning

commit f2c0d0266cc5eb36a4aa44944b4096ec121490aa upstream.

syslog-ng versions before 3.3.0beta1 (2011-05-12) assume that
CAP_SYS_ADMIN is sufficient to access syslog, so ever since CAP_SYSLOG
was introduced (2010-11-25) they have triggered a warning.

Commit ee24aebffb75 ("cap_syslog: accept CAP_SYS_ADMIN for now")
improved matters a little by making syslog-ng work again, just keeping
the WARN_ONCE().  But still, this is a warning that writes a stack trace
we don't care about to syslog, sets a taint flag, and alarms sysadmins
when nothing worse has happened than use of an old userspace with a
recent kernel.

Convert the WARN_ONCE to a printk_once to avoid that while continuing to
give userspace developers a hint that this is an unwanted
backward-compatibility feature and won't be around forever.

Reported-by: Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de>
Reported-by: Niels <zorglub_olsen@hotmail.com>
Reported-by: Paweł Sikora <pluto@agmk.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Liked-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Biedl <linux-kernel.bfrz@manchmal.in-ulm.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/printk.c