From 641de9d8f505db055d451b50e6e38117f84e79bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Uwe=20Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:33:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] printk: fix comment for printk ratelimiting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The comment assumed the burst to be one and the ratelimit used to be named printk_ratelimit_jiffies. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König Cc: Dave Young Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/printk.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index a7f7559c5f..b51b1567bb 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); -- 2.39.5