Commit 6fa29462 authored by Michal Schmidt's avatar Michal Schmidt Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

netlink: rate-limit leftover bytes warning and print process name

[ Upstream commit bfc5184b ]

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: default avatarMichal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 6ddc168f
......@@ -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:
......
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