On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:57:00PM -0700, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > netlink: rate-limit leftover bytes warning and print process name > > to the 3.4-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: > netlink-rate-limit-leftover-bytes-warning-and-print-process-name.patch > and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > > > >From foo@baz Wed Jun 18 21:53:03 PDT 2014 > From: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 18:25:02 +0200 > Subject: netlink: rate-limit leftover bytes warning and print process name > Status: RO > Content-Length: 1053 > Lines: 34 > > From: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx> > > [ Upstream commit bfc5184b69cf9eeb286137640351c650c27f118a ] > > 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: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > lib/nlattr.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > --- a/lib/nlattr.c > +++ b/lib/nlattr.c > @@ -197,8 +197,8 @@ int nla_parse(struct nlattr **tb, int ma > } > > 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: > > > Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx are > > queue-3.4/netlink-rate-limit-leftover-bytes-warning-and-print-process-name.patch Doh, I committed the wrong version, now I have the fixed version in the tree... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html