name_count maxed, losing inode data: dev=00:05, inode=5221

[Christian Kujau]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 at 13:50, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> This is all from the audit subsystem; it's not an ext3 issue AFAICT.

Yeah, after grepping for it I've seen this now. However, I still don't 
understand why it's printed at all and if it's something to worry about. 
Well, probably not, since it's printed with KERN_DEBUG, but then these 
messages should be supressed, no?

Also, can we alter the prinkt somewhat so it says where the message is 
coming from? Something like:

diff --git a/linux-2.6-git/kernel/auditsc.c.orig b/linux-2.6-git/kernel/auditsc.c
index fc0f928..17d8708 100644
--- a/linux-2.6-git/kernel/auditsc.c.orig
+++ b/linux-2.6-git/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -1893,14 +1893,14 @@ static int audit_inc_name_count(struct audit_context *context,
 {
 	if (context->name_count >= AUDIT_NAMES) {
 		if (inode)
-			printk(KERN_DEBUG "name_count maxed, losing inode data: "
+			printk(KERN_DEBUG "audit: name_count maxed, losing inode data: "
 			       "dev=%02x:%02x, inode=%lu\n",
 			       MAJOR(inode->i_sb->s_dev),
 			       MINOR(inode->i_sb->s_dev),
 			       inode->i_ino);
 
 		else
-			printk(KERN_DEBUG "name_count maxed, losing inode data\n");
+			printk(KERN_DEBUG "audit: name_count maxed, losing inode data\n");
 		return 1;
 	}
 	context->name_count++;


Thanks,
Christian.
-- 
BOFH excuse #298:

Not enough interrupts