From: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx>
This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.
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[ 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(-)
diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c
index fc6754720ced..10ad042d01be 100644
--- a/lib/nlattr.c
+++ b/lib/nlattr.c
@@ -201,8 +201,8 @@ int nla_parse(struct nlattr **tb, int maxtype, const struct nlattr *head,
}
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:
--
2.0.0
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