From: Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:09:41 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: mac80211: rate limit wep decrypt failed messages
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc4~8^2~8^2
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=53cb4791c156908ae634de31949f7f25f8de002b;p=linux-2.6

mac80211: rate limit wep decrypt failed messages

The attached patch rate limits "WEP decrypt failed (ICV)" to avoid
flooding the logfiles.

Signed-off-by: Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---

diff --git a/net/mac80211/wep.c b/net/mac80211/wep.c
index 9bf0e1cc53..b5f3413403 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/wep.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/wep.c
@@ -265,7 +265,8 @@ int ieee80211_wep_decrypt(struct ieee80211_local *local, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (ieee80211_wep_decrypt_data(local->wep_rx_tfm, rc4key, klen,
 				       skb->data + hdrlen + WEP_IV_LEN,
 				       len)) {
-		printk(KERN_DEBUG "WEP decrypt failed (ICV)\n");
+		if (net_ratelimit())
+			printk(KERN_DEBUG "WEP decrypt failed (ICV)\n");
 		ret = -1;
 	}