[NET]: Add CONFIG_NETDEBUG to suppress bad packet messages.

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 <shemminger@osdl.org>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
index 1806e5b6141936376352373343c3a37510af6bbf..30758035d6161b13eb7b6715978340d28058bb3f 100644 (file)
--- a/include/net/sock.h
+++ b/include/net/sock.h
@@ -1354,12 +1354,12 @@ extern int sock_get_timestamp(struct sock *, struct timeval __user *);
  *     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
 
 /*

diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
index bc603d9aea56c1a798ae6c763e813365e4f689ea..5126f58d9c44fb2b6dea23f3063904c8fa003243 100644 (file)
--- a/net/Kconfig
+++ b/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"