The macro is to be used similarly as WARN_ON as: if (WARN_ON_RATELIMIT(condition, state)) do_something(); One would expect only 'condition' to affect the 'if', but WARN_ON_RATELIMIT does internally only: WARN_ON((condition) && __ratelimit(state)) So the 'if' is affected by the ratelimiting state too. Fix this by returning 'condition' in any case. Note that nobody uses WARN_ON_RATELIMIT yet, so there is nothing to worry about. But I was about to use it and was a bit surprised. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161215093224.23126-1-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>