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authorDavid Lechner <david@lechnology.com>2018-09-12 19:48:30 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-10-05 12:30:09 +0200
commit9ad66b78ca995c364527568d3f3420c7b0a8c82e (patch)
tree08565a5e82abbe8a824a8d1c5752e58a2fc77170 /drivers/power
parent7b1f4ffab73d9319b8132bbf5f4a0e2110a98bde (diff)
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 c0fc98e03c91..85cb5b9c1b6f 100644
--- a/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_sysfs.c
@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ 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;
}