netdev - af_packet: tone down the Tx-ring unsupported spew.

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Date:	Mon, 4 Apr 2016 15:11:50 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: af_packet: tone down the Tx-ring unsupported spew.

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>

diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index 1ecfa710ca98..f12c17f355d9 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -4151,7 +4151,7 @@ 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;
 	}