From: Breno Leitao Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:57:26 +0000 (-0700) Subject: ipmi: Use dev_warn_ratelimited() for incorrect message warnings X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ec50ec378e3fd83bde9b3d622ceac3509a60b6b5;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git ipmi: Use dev_warn_ratelimited() for incorrect message warnings During BMC firmware upgrades on live systems, the ipmi_msghandler generates excessive "BMC returned incorrect response" warnings while the BMC is temporarily offline. This can flood system logs in large deployments. Replace dev_warn() with dev_warn_ratelimited() to throttle these warnings and prevent log spam during BMC maintenance operations. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Message-ID: <20250710-ipmi_ratelimit-v1-1-6d417015ebe9@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard --- diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c index 064944ae9fdc..8e9050f99e9e 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c @@ -4607,10 +4607,10 @@ return_unspecified: * The NetFN and Command in the response is not even * marginally correct. */ - dev_warn(intf->si_dev, - "BMC returned incorrect response, expected netfn %x cmd %x, got netfn %x cmd %x\n", - (msg->data[0] >> 2) | 1, msg->data[1], - msg->rsp[0] >> 2, msg->rsp[1]); + dev_warn_ratelimited(intf->si_dev, + "BMC returned incorrect response, expected netfn %x cmd %x, got netfn %x cmd %x\n", + (msg->data[0] >> 2) | 1, msg->data[1], + msg->rsp[0] >> 2, msg->rsp[1]); goto return_unspecified; }