FAILED: patch "[PATCH] driver core: Limit the messages on a refused uevent" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] driver core: Limit the messages on a refused uevent" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

[gregkh]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x a01c8e5b1dff1ce489e6b339139e744db36b8bb3
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026110325-yoga-strut-6a3a@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From a01c8e5b1dff1ce489e6b339139e744db36b8bb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:18:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] driver core: Limit the messages on a refused uevent

A write to a "uevent" file which is no valid action makes
kobject_synth_uevent() print a warning and uevent_store() an error every
time.  This is generally considered a bad thing so rate limit these
messages.

Fixes: b0e37c0d8a6a ("net-sysfs: make sure objects belong to container's owner")
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2026102718-conduit-glorious-a8dc@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 5daa88fa724a..cbe05197d4a0 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -2847,7 +2847,9 @@ static ssize_t uevent_store(struct device *dev, const struct device_attribute *a
 	rc = kobject_synth_uevent(&dev->kobj, buf, count);
 
 	if (rc) {
-		dev_err(dev, "uevent: failed to send synthetic uevent: %d\n", rc);
+		dev_err_ratelimited(dev,
+				    "uevent: failed to send synthetic uevent: %d\n",
+				    rc);
 		return rc;
 	}
 
diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
index 1480e2c27ed0..1d29378d4f55 100644
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
+++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
@@ -223,9 +223,9 @@ int kobject_synth_uevent(struct kobject *kobj, const char *buf, size_t count)
 out:
 	if (r) {
 		devpath = kobject_get_path(kobj, GFP_KERNEL);
-		pr_warn("synth uevent: %s: %s\n",
-		       devpath ?: "unknown device",
-		       msg ?: "failed to send uevent");
+		pr_warn_ratelimited("synth uevent: %s: %s\n",
+				    devpath ?: "unknown device",
+				    msg ?: "failed to send uevent");
 		kfree(devpath);
 	}
 	return r;

[PATCH 5.15.y] driver core: Limit the messages on a refused uevent

[Sasha Levin]

From: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>

[ Upstream commit a01c8e5b1dff1ce489e6b339139e744db36b8bb3 ]

A write to a "uevent" file which is no valid action makes
kobject_synth_uevent() print a warning and uevent_store() an error every
time.  This is generally considered a bad thing so rate limit these
messages.

Fixes: b0e37c0d8a6a ("net-sysfs: make sure objects belong to container's owner")
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2026102718-conduit-glorious-a8dc@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[ sashal: Adjusted uevent_store() context because the existing error message lacked the numeric error code. ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/base/core.c  | 4 +++-
 lib/kobject_uevent.c | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index d11cf07e1441c..dda2bc47bc81a 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -2428,7 +2428,9 @@ static ssize_t uevent_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 	rc = kobject_synth_uevent(&dev->kobj, buf, count);
 
 	if (rc) {
-		dev_err(dev, "uevent: failed to send synthetic uevent\n");
+		dev_err_ratelimited(dev,
+				    "uevent: failed to send synthetic uevent: %d\n",
+				    rc);
 		return rc;
 	}
 
diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
index 38716b2eb671d..99de6689ccc21 100644
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
+++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
@@ -224,9 +224,9 @@ int kobject_synth_uevent(struct kobject *kobj, const char *buf, size_t count)
 out:
 	if (r) {
 		devpath = kobject_get_path(kobj, GFP_KERNEL);
-		pr_warn("synth uevent: %s: %s\n",
-		       devpath ?: "unknown device",
-		       msg ?: "failed to send uevent");
+		pr_warn_ratelimited("synth uevent: %s: %s\n",
+				    devpath ?: "unknown device",
+				    msg ?: "failed to send uevent");
 		kfree(devpath);
 	}
 	return r;
-- 
2.53.0