linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 8/9] af_packet: tone down the Tx-ring unsupported spew.

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Message-Id: <20190913130431.515555493@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 13 Sep 2019 14:06:58 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 8/9] af_packet: tone down the Tx-ring unsupported spew.

[ Upstream commit 6ae81ced378820c4c6434b1dedba14a7122df310 ]

Trinity and other fuzzers can hit this WARN on far too easily,
resulting in a tainted kernel that hinders automated fuzzing.

Replace it with a rate-limited printk.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 net/packet/af_packet.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index 5d8988185c591..0dd9fc3f57e87 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -4176,7 +4176,7 @@ static int packet_set_ring(struct sock *sk, union tpacket_req_u *req_u,
 
 	/* Opening a Tx-ring is NOT supported in TPACKET_V3 */
 	if (!closing && tx_ring && (po->tp_version > TPACKET_V2)) {
-		WARN(1, "Tx-ring is not supported.\n");
+		net_warn_ratelimited("Tx-ring is not supported.\n");
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-- 
2.20.1