netdev - Re: [PATCH] sk-filter: Rate-limit WARNing, print dbg info.

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Date:	Tue, 17 May 2011 11:52:29 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	greearb@...delatech.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sk-filter:  Rate-limit WARNing, print dbg info.

On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 11:30 -0700, greearb@...delatech.com wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
> A mis-configured filter can spam the logs with
> lots of stack traces.  Rate-limit the warnings
> and add printout of the bogus filter information.
> -			WARN_ON(1);
> +			if (net_ratelimit()) {
> +				pr_err("filter: Unknown code: %hu jt: %u tf: %u"
> +				       " k: %u\n",
> +				       fentry->code, (unsigned int)(fentry->jt),
> +				       (unsigned int)(fentry->jf), fentry->k);
> +				WARN_ON(1);
> +			}

Maybe just using WARN is better.
I believe the casts aren't necessary.

 net/core/filter.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
index 0eb8c44..5b967d0 100644
--- a/net/core/filter.c
+++ b/net/core/filter.c
@@ -350,7 +350,10 @@ load_b:
 			continue;
 		}
 		default:
-			WARN_ON(1);
+			if (net_ratelimit())
+				WARN(1, "Unknown code:%u jt:%u tf:%u k:%u\n",
+				     fentry->code, fentry->jt,
+				     fentry->jf, fentry->k);
 			return 0;
 		}
 	}


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