Re: 2.6.21-git8+ BUG: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU1

[Jiri Kosina]

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

>   happens when a local process sends packets with invalid IP headers
>   through raw sockets.
[...]
> Whatever happens, that printk should be toned down, shouldn't it?  We
> prefer to not let unprivileged apps spam the logs.

Isn't "unprivileged app sending packet through raw socket" an oxymoron? As 
Patrick pointed out, the message is there for a reason, I'd suggest using 
printk_ratelimit() in this case.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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