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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Hawkes Steve-FSH016 <Steve.Hawkes@motorola.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: printk_ratelimit and net_ratelimit conflict and tunable behavior
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:13:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1203970417.19319.287.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7BFDACCD6948EF4D8FE8F4888A91596A016371FA@tx14exm60.ds.mot.com>

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 09:47 -0600, Hawkes Steve-FSH016 wrote:
> How about this?

line wrapped, but seems better.

> Signed-off-by: Steve Hawkes <steve.hawkes@motorola.com> 
> 
> diff -uprN linux-2.6.24/include/linux/kernel.h
> linux-2.6.24-printk_ratelimit/include/linux/kernel.h
> --- linux-2.6.24/include/linux/kernel.h 2008-01-24 16:58:37.000000000
> + * This enforces a rate limit to mitigate denial-of-service attacks:
> + * not more than ratelimit_burst messages every ratelimit_jiffies.
>   */
> -int __printk_ratelimit(int ratelimit_jiffies, int ratelimit_burst)
> +int __printk_ratelimit(int ratelimit_jiffies,
> +                       int ratelimit_burst,
> +                       struct printk_ratelimit_state *state)

I think the value of in-place tunables is low.
I'd remove that bit and use the struct printk_ratelimit_state.

David Miller points out that struct initializations to 0 or NULL
are not necessary.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-25 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-19 21:30 printk_ratelimit and net_ratelimit conflict and tunable behavior Hawkes Steve-FSH016
2008-02-21  6:32 ` David Miller
2008-02-21  7:00   ` Joe Perches
2008-02-25 15:47     ` Hawkes Steve-FSH016
2008-02-25 20:02       ` David Miller
2008-02-25 20:13       ` Joe Perches [this message]
     [not found]         ` <7BFDACCD6948EF4D8FE8F4888A91596A016371FE@tx14exm60.ds.mot.com>
2008-02-26  0:04           ` Joe Perches
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-02-25 20:36 Steven Hawkes
2008-02-25 23:45 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-28 16:19   ` Hawkes Steve-FSH016
2008-02-28 18:39     ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-28 16:10 Steven Hawkes

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