This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    netlink: rate-limit leftover bytes warning and print process name

to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     netlink-rate-limit-leftover-bytes-warning-and-print-process-name.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Jun 18 20:03:44 PDT 2014
From: Michal Schmidt <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 18:25:02 +0200
Subject: netlink: rate-limit leftover bytes warning and print process name

From: Michal Schmidt <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit bfc5184b69cf9eeb286137640351c650c27f118a ]

Any process is able to send netlink messages with leftover bytes.
Make the warning rate-limited to prevent too much log spam.

The warning is supposed to help find userspace bugs, so print the
triggering command name to implicate the buggy program.

[v2: Use pr_warn_ratelimited instead of printk_ratelimited.]

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 lib/nlattr.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/lib/nlattr.c
+++ b/lib/nlattr.c
@@ -197,8 +197,8 @@ int nla_parse(struct nlattr **tb, int ma
        }
 
        if (unlikely(rem > 0))
-               printk(KERN_WARNING "netlink: %d bytes leftover after parsing "
-                      "attributes.\n", rem);
+               pr_warn_ratelimited("netlink: %d bytes leftover after parsing 
attributes in process `%s'.\n",
+                                   rem, current->comm);
 
        err = 0;
 errout:


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.4/netlink-rate-limit-leftover-bytes-warning-and-print-process-name.patch
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