Merge branch 'linus' into x86/cpu

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/ratelimit.c b/lib/ratelimit.c
index 35136671b215..26187edcc7ea 100644
--- a/lib/ratelimit.c
+++ b/lib/ratelimit.c
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ratelimit_lock);
-static unsigned long flags;
 
 /*
  * __ratelimit - rate limiting
@@ -26,6 +25,8 @@ static unsigned long flags;
  */
 int __ratelimit(struct ratelimit_state *rs)
 {
+        unsigned long flags;
+
         if (!rs->interval)
                 return 1;