From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michal Schmidt 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> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: 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 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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: -- 1.9.3