Re: [PATCH] vsock: ratelimit unknown ioctl error message

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Fri Oct 23 2020 - 16:25:45 EST


On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:09:47 +0200 Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 01:21:13PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> >From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >When exercising the kernel with stress-ng with some ioctl tests the
> >"Unknown ioctl" error message is spamming the kernel log at a high
> >rate. Rate limit this message to reduce the noise.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >---
> > net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
> >index 9e93bc201cc0..b8feb9223454 100644
> >--- a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
> >+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
> >@@ -2072,7 +2072,7 @@ static long vsock_dev_do_ioctl(struct file *filp,
> > break;
> >
> > default:
> >- pr_err("Unknown ioctl %d\n", cmd);
> >+ pr_err_ratelimited("Unknown ioctl %d\n", cmd);
>
> Make sense, or maybe can we remove the error message returning only the
> -EINVAL?

+1

> Both cases are fine for me:
> Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>