This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: openvswitch: fix unwanted error log on timeout policy probing to the 6.1-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: net-openvswitch-fix-unwanted-error-log-on-timeout-po.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 19b17d4a78bb04433f7ad8dd8d9027dd87a3eb6f Author: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed Apr 3 22:38:01 2024 +0200 net: openvswitch: fix unwanted error log on timeout policy probing [ Upstream commit 4539f91f2a801c0c028c252bffae56030cfb2cae ] On startup, ovs-vswitchd probes different datapath features including support for timeout policies. While probing, it tries to execute certain operations with OVS_PACKET_ATTR_PROBE or OVS_FLOW_ATTR_PROBE attributes set. These attributes tell the openvswitch module to not log any errors when they occur as it is expected that some of the probes will fail. For some reason, setting the timeout policy ignores the PROBE attribute and logs a failure anyway. This is causing the following kernel log on each re-start of ovs-vswitchd: kernel: Failed to associated timeout policy `ovs_test_tp' Fix that by using the same logging macro that all other messages are using. The message will still be printed at info level when needed and will be rate limited, but with a net rate limiter instead of generic printk one. The nf_ct_set_timeout() itself will still print some info messages, but at least this change makes logging in openvswitch module more consistent. Fixes: 06bd2bdf19d2 ("openvswitch: Add timeout support to ct action") Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240403203803.2137962-1-i.maximets@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c b/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c index 0591cfb289d50..e4ba86b84b9b1 100644 --- a/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c +++ b/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c @@ -1711,8 +1711,9 @@ int ovs_ct_copy_action(struct net *net, const struct nlattr *attr, if (ct_info.timeout[0]) { if (nf_ct_set_timeout(net, ct_info.ct, family, key->ip.proto, ct_info.timeout)) - pr_info_ratelimited("Failed to associated timeout " - "policy `%s'\n", ct_info.timeout); + OVS_NLERR(log, + "Failed to associated timeout policy '%s'", + ct_info.timeout); else ct_info.nf_ct_timeout = rcu_dereference( nf_ct_timeout_find(ct_info.ct)->timeout);