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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-11 11:19:20 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-11 11:19:20 +0200
commit8067794bec1cc5de1431102cf0a6a1c7ce75cd85 (patch)
tree2bfa0fba060d253bbd972282b29a3d60c3e7cb7f /kernel/printk.c
parent7ab6af7ab69df8c9c5fbc380004fb81187742096 (diff)
parent796aadeb1b2db9b5d463946766c5bbfd7717158c (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/x2apic
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/genapic_64.c Manual merge: arch/x86/kernel/genx2apic_uv_x.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/printk.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk.c21
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 3f7a2a94583b..b51b1567bb55 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -1308,29 +1308,18 @@ void tty_write_message(struct tty_struct *tty, char *msg)
}
#if defined CONFIG_PRINTK
+
/*
* 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.
*/
-int __printk_ratelimit(int ratelimit_jiffies, int ratelimit_burst)
-{
- return __ratelimit(ratelimit_jiffies, ratelimit_burst);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(__printk_ratelimit);
-
-/* minimum time in jiffies between messages */
-int printk_ratelimit_jiffies = 5 * HZ;
-
-/* number of messages we send before ratelimiting */
-int printk_ratelimit_burst = 10;
+DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(printk_ratelimit_state, 5 * HZ, 10);
int printk_ratelimit(void)
{
- return __printk_ratelimit(printk_ratelimit_jiffies,
- printk_ratelimit_burst);
+ return __ratelimit(&printk_ratelimit_state);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(printk_ratelimit);