netlink: rate-limit leftover bytes warning and print process name
authorMichal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Mon, 2 Jun 2014 16:25:02 +0000 (18:25 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:10:28 +0000 (15:10 -0400)
commit6fa2946224569a4f3f975f86193c02c754acc9d8
treecea2ed76cccc891932c2d13cc3f9e03d0c931ccb
parent6ddc168fe00751a47139f5e6fd432aea799c654d
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
lib/nlattr.c