Re: [PATCH] Fix bogus "callbacks suppressed" messages

From: Markus Trippelsdorf
Date: Fri Oct 05 2012 - 11:48:41 EST


On 2012.10.05 at 17:43 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 08:37:06AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > So WARN_RATELIMIT was never working properly? If so, how far back does
> > it go in kernel releases that this should be fixed?
>
> Since b3eec79b0776e which added it in May 2011. But the only one othe r
> user is net/core/filter.c.

But it doesn't matter, because the WARN_RATELIMIT in net/core/filter.c
is guarded by a switch statement and uses WARN_RATELIMIT(1,...). So it
could never trigger the bug.

--
Markus
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