# Re: \[PATCH\] vsock: ratelimit unknown ioctl error message

- From: Stefano Garzarella \<sgarzare@redhat.com\>
- Date: 2020-10-26 08:43:10 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2020/10/6149063
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2020/10/6147653/t.md

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On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 09:30:59PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
>
>From: Stefano Garzarella
>> Sent: 23 October 2020 15:10
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 01:21:13PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
>> >From: Colin Ian King <redacted>
>> >
>> >When exercising the kernel with stress-ng with some ioctl tests the
>> >"Unknown ioctl" error message is spamming the kernel log at a high
>> >rate. Rate limit this message to reduce the noise.
>> >
>> >Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <redacted>
>> >---
>> > net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 2 +-
>> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> >diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
>> >index 9e93bc201cc0..b8feb9223454 100644
>> >--- a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
>> >+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
>> >@@ -2072,7 +2072,7 @@ static long vsock_dev_do_ioctl(struct file *filp,
>> > 		break;
>> >
>> > 	default:
>> >-		pr_err("Unknown ioctl %d\n", cmd);
>> >+		pr_err_ratelimited("Unknown ioctl %d\n", cmd);
>>
>> Make sense, or maybe can we remove the error message returning only the
>> -EINVAL?
>
>Isn't the canonical error for unknown ioctl codes -ENOTTY?
>

Oh, thanks for pointing that out!

I had not paid attention to the error returned, but looking at it I noticed that perhaps the most appropriate would be -ENOIOCTLCMD.
In the ioctl syscall we return -ENOTTY, if the callback returns -ENOIOCTLCMD.

What do you think?

Stefano

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