From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757167AbaHHVNi (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2014 17:13:38 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:41098 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932658AbaHHUwB (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2014 16:52:01 -0400 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Michal Schmidt , "David S. Miller" , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 3.13 209/259] netlink: rate-limit leftover bytes warning and print process name Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 13:40:32 -0700 Message-Id: <1407530482-4483-210-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 In-Reply-To: <1407530482-4483-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1407530482-4483-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.13 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.13.11.6 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Michal Schmidt [ 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- lib/nlattr.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c index fc67547..10ad042d 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: -- 1.9.1