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ipmi: Use dev_warn_ratelimited() for incorrect message warnings

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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 <leitao@debian.org>
Message-ID: <20250710-ipmi_ratelimit-v1-1-6d417015ebe9@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <corey@minyard.net>
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Breno Leitao 2025-07-10 05:57:26 -07:00 committed by Corey Minyard
parent f6f9760320
commit ec50ec378e
1 changed files with 4 additions and 4 deletions
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drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
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@ -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;
}