Re: [PATCH] prctl: Deprecate non PR_SET_MM_MAP operations

[Randy Dunlap]

On 04/04/2018 01:04 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 12:24:33PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>
>>> +	pr_warn_once("Non PR_SET_MM_MAP operations are deprecated\n");
>>> +	return -EINVAL;
>>>  }
>>
>> I'm not against removing such functionality, but I think that it's more than
>> "deprecated."  It's gone.
> 
> At first this was plain warning without code removal but I've
> been advised that dropping it completely may be a better idea
> which I agree https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/4/31 Or you mean the
> warning message itsef? We aready have similars, for example
> in kernel/auditfilter.c

The traditional way (eons ago) to deprecate something was to add a
printk() and then delete the feature a few years later.
Still, I have no objection to dropping that prctl.

Sorry if I wasn't clear.  I was objecting to the "language", i.e., to the
word "deprecated."  Deprecated means frowned on, advised against, etc.
It does not mean "deleted."

> printk(KERN_ERR "AUDIT_POSSIBLE is deprecated\n");

Yeah, that one's wrong also.  :)


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~Randy