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authorRussell King <rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk>2008-08-07 09:55:03 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2008-08-07 09:55:03 +0100
commit4fb8af10d0fd09372d52966b76922b9e82bbc950 (patch)
treed240e4d40357583e3f3eb228dccf20122a5b31ed /kernel/printk.c
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes
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-rw-r--r--kernel/printk.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index a7f7559c5f6c..b51b1567bb55 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);