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)
[ 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

index 01c67507dc43223628d254387b1602f37f32a925..60abf1b5545ab71823467f5b52ea10860947f0b0 100644 (file)
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <linux/skbuff.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
 #include <net/netlink.h>
 
 static const u16 nla_attr_minlen[NLA_TYPE_MAX+1] = {
@@ -197,8 +198,8 @@ 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: