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Message-ID: <d731f5f9-087d-50b9-998f-d9baac4fdb98@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:04:38 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
To: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...nel.org>
cc: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>, Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
dm-devel@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] dm ioctl: rate limit a couple of ioctl based error
messages
On Tue, 29 Oct 2024, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 12:04:31PM +0100, Colin Ian King wrote:
> > It is possible to spam the kernel log with a misbehaving user process that
> > is passing incorrect dm ioctls to /dev/mapper/control. Use a rate limit
> > on these error messages to reduce the noise.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
>
> Mikulas, please update the header to include the context that
> stress-ng is what Colin was using when he experienced excessive
> warnings.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...nel.org>
OK, done.
Mikulas
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