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Continuous talpa warnings for tmpfs on Xbuntu 12.04

 Hi,

I have a continuous flow of Linux kernel warnings, like the following ones:

[14571.156420] talpa-vfshook: talpaRelease: filename=NULL: fstype=tmpfs
[14571.157390] talpa: talpa__d_path: kenel_d_path returned NULL
[14571.158024] talpa:       file deleted
[14571.158990] talpa:       basename=drm mm object

What is very strange is that all of them are referred to the tmpfs file system type which is excluded from the scanning process:

$ sudo /opt/sophos-av/bin/savconfig --all query
...
ExcludeFilesystems: nfs
                                      tmpfs
                                      cifs
...

Where is the problem? What can I do to stop these warnings?

About my system:
$ uname -a
Linux AOA-110-Bb 3.2.0-57-generic #87-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 12 21:38:12 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS
Release:    12.04
Codename:    precise
$ sudo /opt/sophos-av/bin/savdstatus --version
Copyright 1989-2013 Sophos Limited. All rights reserved.
Sophos Anti-Virus       = 9.5.0
Threat detection engine = 3.48.0
Threat data             = 4.96
Threat count            = 6151994
Threat data release     = Wed 11 Dec 2013 12:00:00 AM
Last update             = Fri 27 Dec 2013 04:11:57 PM CET

Thanks for your help,
Kuba

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  • I have such issues on my Ubuntu systems (regardless of 32 or 64bit).

    My syslog is filling up with similar tapal messages.

    kernel: [  660.007963] talpa-vfshook: talpaRelease: filename=NULL: fstype=tmpfs
    kernel: [  660.008034] talpa: talpa__d_path: kernel_d_path returned NULL
    kernel: [  660.008040] talpa:     file deleted
    kernel: [  660.008044] talpa:     basename=drm mm object
    kernel: [  660.008049] talpa-vfshook: talpaRelease: filename=NULL: fstype=tmpfs

    $ uname -a
    Linux XXXXX 3.2.0-57-generic-pae #87-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 12 21:57:43 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

    $ lsb_release -a
    No LSB modules are available.
    Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
    Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS
    Release:    12.04
    Codename:    precise

    $ sudo /opt/sophos-av/bin/savdstatus --version
    Copyright 1989-2013 Sophos Limited. All rights reserved.
    Sophos Anti-Virus       = 9.5.0
    Threat detection engine = 3.48.0
    Threat data             = 4.96
    Threat count            = 6152166
    Threat data release     = Wed 11 Dec 2013 12:00:00 AM
    Last update             = Fri 03 Jan 2014 10:28:30 AM

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  • Unfortunately those messages come out at the interception level, before any of the exclusions or inclusions are processed.

    Hopefully those messages will be downgraded to dbg messages in the next version of talpa.

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