[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>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
index bc603d9aea56..5126f58d9c44 100644
--- a/net/Kconfig
+++ b/net/Kconfig
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ if NET
 
 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"