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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rate limit wep decrypt failed messages

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On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 17:09 +0100, Adel Gadllah wrote:
> The attached patch rate limits "WEP decrypt failed (ICV)" to avoid
> flooding the logfiles.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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;
>  	}
> -
> 

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