Bug 37882

Summary:	WARNING: at ../kernel/printk.c:322
Product:	Process Management	Reporter:	Maciej Rutecki (maciej.rutecki)
Component:	Other	Assignee:	process_other
Status:	CLOSED DOCUMENTED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kernel, maciej.rutecki, rjw, tony
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.38	Subsystem:
Regression:	Yes	Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	32012

Description Maciej Rutecki 2011-06-19 15:45:56 UTC

Subject    : WARNING: at ../kernel/printk.c:322
Submitter  : Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Date       : 2011-06-11 7:17
Message-ID : alpine.DEB.2.01.1106110003030.9183@trent.utfs.org
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130777668512981&w=2

This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.39. Please don't
close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline.

Comment 1 Christian Kujau 2011-06-19 19:54:30 UTC

It does not seem to be a regression from 2.6.39 - in the syslog-ng bugtracker[0] the problem had been reported for 2.6.38+ too and now I'm not really sure if that's that's a syslog-ng bug or something else. I'd understand the "deprecated" message, but I was kinda worried by the WARNING. That's why I sent this to lkml.

Thanks,
Christian.

[0] https://bugzilla.balabit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=108

Comment 2 Tony Breeds 2011-06-20 01:06:25 UTC

This is a syslog-ng problem.  https://bugzilla.balabit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=108#c14
holds the answer.  Yes the kernel accepts CAP_SYS_ADMIN but syslog-ng should be moved over to use CAP_SYSLOG on newer kernels.

Comment 3 Tony Breeds 2011-06-20 01:08:33 UTC

Also this may have been found on ppc32 but it's specific to that platform.  This is generic code.

Bug should be closed or at least assigned elsewhere.