This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv6_tunnel: Rate limit warning messages
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ipv6_tunnel-rate-limit-warning-messages.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 07487d0aa4d07662696a41d8ea7395bc7e86d507
Author: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Jan 20 10:05:46 2022 +0200
ipv6_tunnel: Rate limit warning messages
[ Upstream commit 6cee105e7f2ced596373951d9ea08dacc3883c68 ]
The warning messages can be invoked from the data path for every packet
transmitted through an ip6gre netdev, leading to high CPU utilization.
Fix that by rate limiting the messages.
Fixes: 09c6bbf090ec ("[IPV6]: Do mandatory IPv6 tunnel endpoint checks in realtime")
Reported-by: Maksym Yaremchuk <maksymy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Maksym Yaremchuk <maksymy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Amit Cohen <amcohen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
index fd0d1cee2d3f5..878a08c40fffd 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
@@ -1000,14 +1000,14 @@ int ip6_tnl_xmit_ctl(struct ip6_tnl *t,
if (unlikely(!ipv6_chk_addr_and_flags(net, laddr, ldev, false,
0, IFA_F_TENTATIVE)))
- pr_warn("%s xmit: Local address not yet configured!\n",
- p->name);
+ pr_warn_ratelimited("%s xmit: Local address not yet configured!\n",
+ p->name);
else if (!(p->flags & IP6_TNL_F_ALLOW_LOCAL_REMOTE) &&
!ipv6_addr_is_multicast(raddr) &&
unlikely(ipv6_chk_addr_and_flags(net, raddr, ldev,
true, 0, IFA_F_TENTATIVE)))
- pr_warn("%s xmit: Routing loop! Remote address found on this node!\n",
- p->name);
+ pr_warn_ratelimited("%s xmit: Routing loop! Remote address found on this node!\n",
+ p->name);
else
ret = 1;
rcu_read_unlock();
