From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nos...@oracle.com> AFAICT this message is just printed whenever input validation fails. This is a normal failure and we shouldn't be dumping the stack over it.
Looks like it was originally a printk that was maybe incorrectly upgraded to a WARN: commit 62db5cfd70b1ef53aa21f144a806fe3b78c84fab Author: stephen hemminger <shemmin...@vyatta.com> Date: Wed May 12 06:37:06 2010 +0000 xfrm: add severity to printk Cc: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klass...@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nos...@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klass...@secunet.com> --- net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c index 4fb04ce..1a4f142 100644 --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c @@ -2117,7 +2117,7 @@ static int xfrm_add_acquire(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, err = verify_newpolicy_info(&ua->policy); if (err) - goto bad_policy; + goto free_state; /* build an XP */ xp = xfrm_policy_construct(net, &ua->policy, attrs, &err); @@ -2149,8 +2149,6 @@ static int xfrm_add_acquire(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, return 0; -bad_policy: - WARN(1, "BAD policy passed\n"); free_state: kfree(x); nomem: -- 1.9.1