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From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 09:57:53AM -0300, Wander Lairson Costa wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 1:13 PM Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
> <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/20/22 9:39 PM, 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.

thanks,

greg k-h