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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/nf_flowtable.rst2
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
index 837d51f9e1fa..25e6673a085a 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
@@ -1142,13 +1142,15 @@ icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER
icmp_msgs_per_sec - INTEGER
Limit maximal number of ICMP packets sent per second from this host.
Only messages whose type matches icmp_ratemask (see below) are
- controlled by this limit.
+ controlled by this limit. For security reasons, the precise count
+ of messages per second is randomized.
Default: 1000
icmp_msgs_burst - INTEGER
icmp_msgs_per_sec controls number of ICMP packets sent per second,
while icmp_msgs_burst controls the burst size of these packets.
+ For security reasons, the precise burst size is randomized.
Default: 50
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/nf_flowtable.rst b/Documentation/networking/nf_flowtable.rst
index b6e1fa141aae..6cdf9a1724b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/nf_flowtable.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/nf_flowtable.rst
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ More reading
This documentation is based on the LWN.net articles [1]_\ [2]_. Rafal Milecki
also made a very complete and comprehensive summary called "A state of network
acceleration" that describes how things were before this infrastructure was
-mailined [3]_ and it also makes a rough summary of this work [4]_.
+mainlined [3]_ and it also makes a rough summary of this work [4]_.
.. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/738214/
.. [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/742164/