Re: [REGRESSION] RLIMIT_DATA crashes named

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sat Sep 17 2016 - 00:08:47 EST


On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 17:040700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Here's a totally untested patch. What do people say?
> Heh. It looks like "pr_xyz_once()" is used in places that haven't
> included "ratelimit.h", so this doesn't actually build for everything.
> But I guess as a concept patch it's not hard to understand, even if
> the implementation needs a bit of tweaking.

do_just_once just isn't a good name for a global
rate limited mechanism that does something very
different than the name.

Maybe allow_once_per_ratelimit or the like

There could be an equivalent do_once

https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/22/3