af_packet: tone down the Tx-ring unsupported spew.
authorDave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Mon, 4 Apr 2016 19:11:50 +0000 (15:11 -0400)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 6 Apr 2016 20:05:20 +0000 (16:05 -0400)
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@codemonkey.org.uk>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/packet/af_packet.c

index 1ecfa710ca9803e6cbb49e3d419633085f3544dd..f12c17f355d932d9b6a396654a66fceb5aaf0c73 100644 (file)
@@ -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;
        }