If you are on a hostile network, or are running protocol tests, you can
easily get the logged swamped by messages about bad UDP and ICMP packets.
This turns those messages off unless a config option is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- br-2.6.orig/include/net/sock.h
+++ br-2.6/include/net/sock.h
@@ -1354,12 +1354,12 @@ extern int sock_get_timestamp(struct soc
* Enable debug/info messages
*/
-#if 0
-#define NETDEBUG(fmt, args...) do { } while (0)
-#define LIMIT_NETDEBUG(fmt, args...) do { } while(0)
-#else
+#ifdef CONFIG_NETDEBUG
#define NETDEBUG(fmt, args...) printk(fmt,##args)
#define LIMIT_NETDEBUG(fmt, args...) do { if (net_ratelimit())
printk(fmt,##args); } while(0)
+#else
+#define NETDEBUG(fmt, args...) do { } while (0)
+#define LIMIT_NETDEBUG(fmt, args...) do { } while(0)
#endif
/*
--- br-2.6.orig/net/Kconfig
+++ br-2.6/net/Kconfig
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ if NET
menu "Networking options"
+config NETDEBUG
+ bool "Network packet debugging"
+ help
+ You can say Y here if you want to get additional messages useful in
+ debugging bad packets, but can overwhelm logs under denial of service
+ attacks.
+
source "net/packet/Kconfig"
source "net/unix/Kconfig"
source "net/xfrm/Kconfig"
-
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