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* [PATCH] power_supply: sysfs: ratelimit property read error message
@ 2018-09-13  0:48 David Lechner
  2018-09-13  0:51 ` David Lechner
  2018-09-16  9:34 ` Sebastian Reichel
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Lechner @ 2018-09-13  0:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Sebastian Reichel, linux-pm; +Cc: linux-kernel, David Lechner

This adds ratelimiting to the message that is printed when reading a
power supply property via sysfs returns an error. This will prevent
userspace applications from unintentionally dDOSing the system by
continuosuly reading a property that returns an error.

Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
---
 drivers/power/supply/power_supply_sysfs.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_sysfs.c b/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_sysfs.c
index 6170ed8b6854..dce24f596160 100644
--- a/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_sysfs.c
@@ -131,7 +131,8 @@ static ssize_t power_supply_show_property(struct device *dev,
 				dev_dbg(dev, "driver has no data for `%s' property\n",
 					attr->attr.name);
 			else if (ret != -ENODEV && ret != -EAGAIN)
-				dev_err(dev, "driver failed to report `%s' property: %zd\n",
+				dev_err_ratelimited(dev,
+					"driver failed to report `%s' property: %zd\n",
 					attr->attr.name, ret);
 			return ret;
 		}
-- 
2.17.1

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