This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tipc: rate limit warning for received illegal binding update
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:
tipc-rate-limit-warning-for-received-illegal-binding.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 a3c50b66eadb371fe50bacbc32d695a0045de313
Author: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Feb 8 22:22:37 2022 -0500
tipc: rate limit warning for received illegal binding update
[ Upstream commit c7223d687758462826a20e9735305d55bb874c70 ]
It would be easy to craft a message containing an illegal binding table
update operation. This is handled correctly by the code, but the
corresponding warning printout is not rate limited as is should be.
We fix this now.
Fixes: b97bf3fd8f6a ("[TIPC] Initial merge")
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/tipc/name_distr.c b/net/tipc/name_distr.c
index 836e629e8f4ab..661bc2551a0a2 100644
--- a/net/tipc/name_distr.c
+++ b/net/tipc/name_distr.c
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ static bool tipc_update_nametbl(struct net *net, struct distr_item *i,
pr_warn_ratelimited("Failed to remove binding %u,%u from %x\n",
type, lower, node);
} else {
- pr_warn("Unrecognized name table message received\n");
+ pr_warn_ratelimited("Unknown name table message received\n");
}
return false;
}
