[PATCH 3.11 138/198] netlink: rate-limit leftover bytes warning and print process name

[Luis Henriques]

3.11.10.13 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com>

commit bfc5184b69cf9eeb286137640351c650c27f118a upstream.

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 at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 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:
-- 
1.9.1