From patchwork Tue May 27 13:16:03 2014 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Michal Schmidt X-Patchwork-Id: 352944 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DA5B1400E1 for ; Tue, 27 May 2014 23:16:13 +1000 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752191AbaE0NQI (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2014 09:16:08 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:19363 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752108AbaE0NQF (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2014 09:16:05 -0400 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s4RDG59s030571 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 27 May 2014 09:16:05 -0400 Received: from hp.brq.redhat.com (dhcp-27-177.brq.redhat.com [10.34.27.177]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s4RDG3Lu006756; Tue, 27 May 2014 09:16:04 -0400 From: Michal Schmidt To: David Miller Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] netlink: downgrade warning about leftover bytes to debug level Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 15:16:03 +0200 Message-Id: <1401196563-6999-1-git-send-email-mschmidt@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.22 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Any process is able to send netlink messages with leftover bytes, so downgrade the warning message to pr_debug in order to avoid possible kernel log spam. Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt --- lib/nlattr.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c index fc67547..fbadde6 100644 --- a/lib/nlattr.c +++ b/lib/nlattr.c @@ -201,8 +201,8 @@ int nla_parse(struct nlattr **tb, int maxtype, const struct nlattr *head, } if (unlikely(rem > 0)) - printk(KERN_WARNING "netlink: %d bytes leftover after parsing " - "attributes.\n", rem); + pr_debug("netlink: %d bytes leftover after parsing attributes.\n", + rem); err = 0; errout: