netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: rate limit synflood warnings further

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Date:   Tue, 11 Sep 2018 23:35:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com, willemb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: rate limit synflood warnings further

From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Date: Sun,  9 Sep 2018 19:12:12 -0400

> From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
> 
> Convert pr_info to net_info_ratelimited to limit the total number of
> synflood warnings.
> 
> Commit 946cedccbd73 ("tcp: Change possible SYN flooding messages")
> rate limits synflood warnings to one per listener.
> 
> Workloads that open many listener sockets can still see a high rate of
> log messages. Syzkaller is one frequent example.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Willem.

Is this stable material?