Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:30:20 +0100 (CET) | From | Jozsef Kadlecsik <> | Subject | Re: ip_set: protocol %u message -- useful? |
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On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> I've recently noticed a lot of > > [356872.380595] ip_set: protocol 6
That means the ip_set module has been loaded in multiple times.
> messages in my dmesg. This might be because of some local > configuration changes I've made, or perhaps a kernel upgrade. Either > way, it appears this message has been a pr_notice since the original > code added it in a7b4f989a62 ("netfilter: ipset: IP set core > support"). > > Does this message provide a lot of value? Or could it be made into a pr_debug?
That's a report message on the protocol version used by the ipset subsystem. There was (and possibly will be) multiple protocols, so it helps to catch basic userpsace/kernelspace communication issues.
> FWIW commit 1785e8f473 ("netfiler: ipset: Add net namespace for > ipset"), merged in v3.13-rc1 changed the code around which may have > made it more likely to appear in dmesg (with the namespace stuff). Not > sure though. I don't (purposely) use namespaces.
Namespaces can explain why you see the message so many times, but then you must have namespaces activated.
> I'm happy to put together a patch demoting it to pr_debug if people > think it's OK.
I'm fine with it, it's OK.
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