linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 252/305] batman-adv: replace WARN with rate limited output on non-existing VLAN

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Date:	Sat, 13 Aug 2016 18:42:51 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Sven Eckelmann" <sven@...fation.org>,
	"Simon Wunderlich" <sw@...onwunderlich.de>,
	"Marek Lindner" <mareklindner@...mailbox.ch>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 252/305] batman-adv: replace WARN with rate limited
 output on non-existing VLAN

3.16.37-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Simon Wunderlich <sw@...onwunderlich.de>

commit 0b3dd7dfb81ad8af53791ea2bb64b83bac1b7d32 upstream.

If a VLAN tagged frame is received and the corresponding VLAN is not
configured on the soft interface, it will splat a WARN on every packet
received. This is a quite annoying behaviour for some scenarios, e.g. if
bat0 is bridged with eth0, and there are arbitrary VLAN tagged frames
from Ethernet coming in without having any VLAN configuration on bat0.

The code should probably create vlan objects on the fly and
transparently transport these VLAN-tagged Ethernet frames, but until
this is done, at least the WARN splat should be replaced by a rate
limited output.

Fixes: 354136bcc3c4 ("batman-adv: fix kernel crash due to missing NULL checks")
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@...onwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@...mailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
@@ -576,8 +576,10 @@ bool batadv_tt_local_add(struct net_devi
 
 	/* increase the refcounter of the related vlan */
 	vlan = batadv_softif_vlan_get(bat_priv, vid);
-	if (WARN(!vlan, "adding TT local entry %pM to non-existent VLAN %d",
-		 addr, BATADV_PRINT_VID(vid))) {
+	if (!vlan) {
+		net_ratelimited_function(batadv_info, soft_iface,
+					 "adding TT local entry %pM to non-existent VLAN %d\n",
+					 addr, BATADV_PRINT_VID(vid));
 		kfree(tt_local);
 		tt_local = NULL;
 		goto out;