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authorDavid Lechner <david@lechnology.com>2018-09-12 19:48:30 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-10-01 08:26:07 +0200
commit0c23335a2d81dec8134e7f0f97195e4a05088fdd (patch)
treee50555d09cd3b44af8e110a938459afdc7be397e /drivers/power
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power: supply: sysfs: ratelimit property read error message
[ Upstream commit 87a2b65fc855e6be50f791c2ebbb492541896827 ] This adds rate limiting 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 continuously reading a property that returns an error. Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/power')
-rw-r--r--drivers/power/supply/power_supply_sysfs.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_sysfs.c b/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_sysfs.c
index 5a2757a7f408..5358a80d854f 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;
}