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+/*
+ * Generic address resultion entity
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ * net_random Alan Cox
+ * net_ratelimit Andy Kleen
+ *
+ * Created by Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+
+#include <asm/uaccess.h>
+#include <asm/system.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+
+static unsigned long net_rand_seed = 152L;
+
+unsigned long net_random(void)
+{
+ net_rand_seed=net_rand_seed*69069L+1;
+ return net_rand_seed^jiffies;
+}
+
+void net_srandom(unsigned long entropy)
+{
+ net_rand_seed ^= entropy;
+ net_random();
+}
+
+int net_msg_cost = 5*HZ;
+int net_msg_burst = 10*5*HZ;
+
+/*
+ * This enforces a rate limit: not more than one kernel message
+ * every 5secs to make a denial-of-service attack impossible.
+ *
+ * All warning printk()s should be guarded by this function.
+ */
+int net_ratelimit(void)
+{
+ static unsigned long toks = 10*5*HZ;
+ static unsigned long last_msg;
+ static int missed;
+ unsigned long now = jiffies;
+
+ toks += now - xchg(&last_msg, now);
+ if (toks > net_msg_burst)
+ toks = net_msg_burst;
+ if (toks >= net_msg_cost) {
+ toks -= net_msg_cost;
+ if (missed)
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "NET: %d messages suppressed.\n", missed);
+ missed = 0;
+ return 1;
+ }
+ missed++;
+ return 0;
+}