ipv6_tunnel: Rate limit warning messages
authorIdo Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Thu, 20 Jan 2022 08:05:46 +0000 (10:05 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 8 Feb 2022 17:15:27 +0000 (18:15 +0100)
commit 6cee105e7f2ced596373951d9ea08dacc3883c68 upstream.

The warning messages can be invoked from the data path for every packet
transmitted through an ip6gre netdev, leading to high CPU utilization.

Fix that by rate limiting the messages.

Fixes: 09c6bbf090ec ("[IPV6]: Do mandatory IPv6 tunnel endpoint checks in realtime")
Reported-by: Maksym Yaremchuk <maksymy@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Maksym Yaremchuk <maksymy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Cohen <amcohen@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c

index 4e18ce5b939ace7049e0951b4131d65528f535b3..322171a344c0959ea5efc1653aaa32d5a18dc81d 100644 (file)
@@ -1007,12 +1007,12 @@ int ip6_tnl_xmit_ctl(struct ip6_tnl *t,
                        ldev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, p->link);
 
                if (unlikely(!ipv6_chk_addr(net, laddr, ldev, 0)))
-                       pr_warn("%s xmit: Local address not yet configured!\n",
-                               p->name);
+                       pr_warn_ratelimited("%s xmit: Local address not yet configured!\n",
+                                           p->name);
                else if (!ipv6_addr_is_multicast(raddr) &&
                         unlikely(ipv6_chk_addr(net, raddr, NULL, 0)))
-                       pr_warn("%s xmit: Routing loop! Remote address found on this node!\n",
-                               p->name);
+                       pr_warn_ratelimited("%s xmit: Routing loop! Remote address found on this node!\n",
+                                           p->name);
                else
                        ret = 1;
                rcu_read_unlock();