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

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 05:48:47PM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> 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.

Yes, but you should say "it covers the bug with a brown paper bag
because the condition is always true."

:-)

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