[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 1/5] pstore/ram: Rate-limit "uncorrectable error in header" message

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Sun Mar 07 2021 - 08:59:39 EST


From: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 7db688e99c0f770ae73e0f1f3fb67f9b64266445 ]

There is a quite huge "uncorrectable error in header" flood in KMSG
on a clean system boot since there is no pstore buffer saved in RAM.
Let's silence the redundant noisy messages by rate-limiting the printk
message. Now there are maximum 10 messages printed repeatedly instead
of 35+.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302095850.30894-1-digetx@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/pstore/ram_core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
index 1f4d8c06f9be..4cb0478a17f8 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ static int persistent_ram_init_ecc(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz,
pr_info("error in header, %d\n", numerr);
prz->corrected_bytes += numerr;
} else if (numerr < 0) {
- pr_info("uncorrectable error in header\n");
+ pr_info_ratelimited("uncorrectable error in header\n");
prz->bad_blocks++;
}

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2.30.1