Any process is able to send netlink messages with invalid types. Make the warning rate-limited to prevent too much log spam. The warning is supposed to help to find misbehaving programs, so print the triggering command name and pid. Reported-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vladis Dronov <vdronov@xxxxxxxxxx> --- security/selinux/hooks.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c index e4369d8..3d8087d 100644 --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c @@ -4787,11 +4787,12 @@ static int selinux_nlmsg_perm(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb) err = selinux_nlmsg_lookup(sksec->sclass, nlh->nlmsg_type, &perm); if (err) { if (err == -EINVAL) { - printk(KERN_WARNING - "SELinux: unrecognized netlink message:" - " protocol=%hu nlmsg_type=%hu sclass=%s\n", + pr_warn_ratelimited("SELinux: unrecognized netlink" + " message: protocol=%hu nlmsg_type=%hu sclass=%s" + " from %s[%d]\n", sk->sk_protocol, nlh->nlmsg_type, - secclass_map[sksec->sclass - 1].name); + secclass_map[sksec->sclass - 1].name, + current->comm, current->pid); if (!selinux_enforcing || security_get_allow_unknown()) err = 0; } -- _______________________________________________ Selinux mailing list Selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send email to Selinux-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. To get help, send an email containing "help" to Selinux-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.