Re: [PATCH v15 2/3] virt: Add TDX guest driver

From: Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Date: Mon Oct 24 2022 - 21:03:21 EST




On 10/24/22 6:54 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>>>>> You are allowing userspace to spam the kernel logs, please do not do
>>>>>> that.
>>>>> Added it to help userspace understand the reason for the failure (only for
>>>>> the cases like request param issues and TDCALL failure). Boris recommended
>>>>> adding it in the previous review.
>>>> Again, you just created a vector for userspace to spam the kernel log.
>>>> No kernel driver should ever do that.
>>>>
>>> Brois, any comments? Do you also agree?
>>>
>> Maybe dev_err_once() does the job?
> That does not make any sense when the userspace input can be different
> each time.
>
> This is just yet-another-ioctl, there's nothing special about it.
> Return an error for invalid input and don't log anything. Worst case,
> make it a dev_dbg() call if you really really really want to see it.

It is a nice to have debug info, but not very important. So I will remove it.

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Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Linux Kernel Developer