Any process is able to send netlink messages with invalid types. Make the warning rate-limited to prevent too much log spam.
The warning is supposed to help to find misbehaving programs, so print the triggering command name and pid. Reported-by: Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Vladis Dronov <vdro...@redhat.com> --- security/selinux/hooks.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c index d0cfaa9..791fc46 100644 --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c @@ -4785,11 +4785,12 @@ static int selinux_nlmsg_perm(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb) err = selinux_nlmsg_lookup(sksec->sclass, nlh->nlmsg_type, &perm); if (err) { if (err == -EINVAL) { - printk(KERN_WARNING - "SELinux: unrecognized netlink message:" - " protocol=%hu nlmsg_type=%hu sclass=%s\n", + pr_warn_ratelimited("SELinux: unrecognized netlink" + " message: protocol=%hu nlmsg_type=%hu sclass=%s" + " pig=%d comm=%s\n", sk->sk_protocol, nlh->nlmsg_type, - secclass_map[sksec->sclass - 1].name); + secclass_map[sksec->sclass - 1].name, + task_pid_nr(current), current->comm); if (!selinux_enforcing || security_get_allow_unknown()) err = 0; } -- 2.6.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html