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 <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Wed May 12 06:37:06 2010 +0000
xfrm: add severity to printk
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
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);
return 0;
-bad_policy:
- WARN(1, "BAD policy passed\n");
free_state:
kfree(x);
nomem: