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| author | Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> | 2014-06-02 18:25:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> | 2014-06-23 10:27:58 +0200 |
| commit | ec2ab4bc695981aac49a33317c9d8b541f2babd1 (patch) | |
| tree | 8a0e4e556fb4897c58db1a4bb3ba4ba12ec0c189 | |
| parent | d8981d30858dafaf3b603ffd2d1231f410821e29 (diff) | |
netlink: rate-limit leftover bytes warning and print process name
[ Upstream commit bfc5184b69cf9eeb286137640351c650c27f118a ]
Any process is able to send netlink messages with leftover bytes.
Make the warning rate-limited to prevent too much log spam.
The warning is supposed to help find userspace bugs, so print the
triggering command name to implicate the buggy program.
[v2: Use pr_warn_ratelimited instead of printk_ratelimited.]
Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/nlattr.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c index fc6754720ce..10ad042d01b 100644 --- a/lib/nlattr.c +++ b/lib/nlattr.c @@ -201,8 +201,8 @@ int nla_parse(struct nlattr **tb, int maxtype, const struct nlattr *head, } if (unlikely(rem > 0)) - printk(KERN_WARNING "netlink: %d bytes leftover after parsing " - "attributes.\n", rem); + pr_warn_ratelimited("netlink: %d bytes leftover after parsing attributes in process `%s'.\n", + rem, current->comm); err = 0; errout: |