linux-kernel - [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: fix unwanted error log on timeout policy probing

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Date: Wed,  3 Apr 2024 22:38:01 +0200
From: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@....org>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@...il.com>,
	dev@...nvswitch.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@....org>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: openvswitch: fix unwanted error log on timeout policy probing

On startup, ovs-vswitchd probes different datapath features including
support for timeout policies.  While probing, it tries to execute
certain operations with OVS_PACKET_ATTR_PROBE or OVS_FLOW_ATTR_PROBE
attributes set.  These attributes tell the openvswitch module to not
log any errors when they occur as it is expected that some of the
probes will fail.

For some reason, setting the timeout policy ignores the PROBE attribute
and logs a failure anyway.  This is causing the following kernel log
on each re-start of ovs-vswitchd:

  kernel: Failed to associated timeout policy `ovs_test_tp'

Fix that by using the same logging macro that all other messages are
using.  The message will still be printed at info level when needed
and will be rate limited, but with a net rate limiter instead of
generic printk one.

The nf_ct_set_timeout() itself will still print some info messages,
but at least this change makes logging in openvswitch module more
consistent.

Fixes: 06bd2bdf19d2 ("openvswitch: Add timeout support to ct action")
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@....org>
---
 net/openvswitch/conntrack.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c b/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c
index 3019a4406ca4..74b63cdb5992 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c
@@ -1380,8 +1380,9 @@ int ovs_ct_copy_action(struct net *net, const struct nlattr *attr,
 	if (ct_info.timeout[0]) {
 		if (nf_ct_set_timeout(net, ct_info.ct, family, key->ip.proto,
 				      ct_info.timeout))
-			pr_info_ratelimited("Failed to associated timeout "
-					    "policy `%s'\n", ct_info.timeout);
+			OVS_NLERR(log,
+				  "Failed to associated timeout policy '%s'",
+				  ct_info.timeout);
 		else
 			ct_info.nf_ct_timeout = rcu_dereference(
 				nf_ct_timeout_find(ct_info.ct)->timeout);
-- 
2.44.0