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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-15 17:07:34 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-15 17:07:34 +0200
commit04197c83b3e05546d1003cfa3ff43f1639c0057f (patch)
treec04ddce9f519b91c0b20c6c09f7529928350eefe /kernel/printk.c
parent71998e83c520c7a91b254dc9705baeedbee0d44f (diff)
parentb635acec48bcaa9183fcbf4e3955616b0d4119b5 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/tracehook
Conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/printk.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index a7f7559c5f6..b51b1567bb5 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -1309,14 +1309,14 @@ void tty_write_message(struct tty_struct *tty, char *msg)
#if defined CONFIG_PRINTK
-DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(printk_ratelimit_state, 5 * HZ, 10);
/*
* printk rate limiting, lifted from the networking subsystem.
*
- * This enforces a rate limit: not more than one kernel message
- * every printk_ratelimit_jiffies to make a denial-of-service
- * attack impossible.
+ * This enforces a rate limit: not more than 10 kernel messages
+ * every 5s to make a denial-of-service attack impossible.
*/
+DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(printk_ratelimit_state, 5 * HZ, 10);
+
int printk_ratelimit(void)
{
return __ratelimit(&printk_ratelimit_state);