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)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Mon, 23 Jun 2014 08:27:58 +0000 (10:27 +0200)
commitec2ab4bc695981aac49a33317c9d8b541f2babd1
tree8a0e4e556fb4897c58db1a4bb3ba4ba12ec0c189
parentd8981d30858dafaf3b603ffd2d1231f410821e29
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>
lib/nlattr.c