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From: "Adel Gadllah" <adel.gadllah@gmail.com>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: johannes@sipsolutions.net
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: rate limit wep decrypt failed messages
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:09:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6cf6b73e0711290809q7c8a2050x6daf97b5eb954cbe@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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

Signed-off-by: Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmx.net>

diff --git a/net/mac80211/wep.c b/net/mac80211/wep.c
index 9bf0e1c..b5f3413 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;
 	}
-

             reply	other threads:[~2007-11-29 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-29 16:09 Adel Gadllah [this message]
2007-11-30 11:38 ` [PATCH] mac80211: rate limit wep decrypt failed messages Johannes Berg

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