basic/log: put a ratelimit on our logging to /dev/kmsg

See the inline comment for details.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/basic/log.c b/src/basic/log.c
index 8bcc18bc80..f26b592a6c 100644
--- a/src/basic/log.c
+++ b/src/basic/log.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #include "parse-util.h"
 #include "proc-cmdline.h"
 #include "process-util.h"
+#include "ratelimit.h"
 #include "signal-util.h"
 #include "socket-util.h"
 #include "stdio-util.h"
@@ -459,6 +460,15 @@ static int write_to_kmsg(
                 const char *func,
                 const char *buffer) {
 
+        /* Set a ratelimit on the amount of messages logged to /dev/kmsg. This is mostly supposed to be a
+         * safety catch for the case where start indiscriminately logging in a loop. It will not catch cases
+         * where we log excessively, but not in a tight loop.
+         *
+         * Note that this ratelimit is per-emitter, so we might still overwhelm /dev/kmsg with multiple
+         * loggers.
+         */
+        static thread_local RateLimit ratelimit = { 5 * USEC_PER_SEC, 200 };
+
         char header_priority[2 + DECIMAL_STR_MAX(int) + 1],
              header_pid[4 + DECIMAL_STR_MAX(pid_t) + 1];
         struct iovec iovec[5] = {};
@@ -466,6 +476,9 @@ static int write_to_kmsg(
         if (kmsg_fd < 0)
                 return 0;
 
+        if (!ratelimit_below(&ratelimit))
+                return 0;
+
         xsprintf(header_priority, "<%i>", level);
         xsprintf(header_pid, "["PID_FMT"]: ", getpid_cached());