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Date:	Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:45:52 -0700
From:	greearb@...delatech.com
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net:  rate-limit warn-bad-offload splats.

From: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>

If one does do something unfortunate and allow a
bad offload bug into the kernel, this the
skb_warn_bad_offload can effectively live-lock the
system, filling the logs with the same error over
and over.

Add rate limitation to this so that box remains otherwise
functional in this case.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
---
 net/core/dev.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 2ae4e93..ff27b34 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2165,6 +2165,9 @@ static void skb_warn_bad_offload(const struct sk_buff *skb)
 	struct net_device *dev = skb->dev;
 	const char *driver = "";
 
+	if (!net_ratelimit())
+		return;
+
 	if (dev && dev->dev.parent)
 		driver = dev_driver_string(dev->dev.parent);
 
-- 
1.7.3.4

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