linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Improve the remove sysctl warnings.

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Date:	Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:50:40 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Cal Peake <cp@...olutedigital.net>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Improve the remove sysctl warnings.

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:25:20PM -0400, Cal Peake wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> >  	if (msg_count < 5) {
> >  		msg_count++;
> >  		printk(KERN_INFO
> >  			"warning: process `%s' used the removed sysctl "
> > -			"system call\n", current->comm);
> > +			"system call with ", current->comm);
> > +		for (i = 0; i < tmp.nlen; i++)
> > +			printk("%d.", name[i]);
> > +		printk("\n");
> >  	}
>
> We should prolly kill the counter now.

sysctl(2) callable by everyone including local lusers willing to fill logs.

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