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netlink: rate-limit leftover bytes warning and print process name
authorMichal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Mon, 2 Jun 2014 16:25:02 +0000 (18:25 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 2 Jun 2014 18:16:11 +0000 (11:16 -0700)
commit2c414ca9c01749cd3c2ea835c1fa5634e1787f14
tree240aa292d873c16de66f380a9ab9c24a63b4201b
parentde3baf9fde391f42b2c7fbbb73d5e97bc9c12d07
netlink: rate-limit leftover bytes warning and print process name

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@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
lib/nlattr.c