[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/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
index bc603d9..5126f58 100644
--- a/net/Kconfig
+++ b/net/Kconfig
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@
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"