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Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:25:28 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Masoud Sharbiani" <masouds@...gle.com>
Cc:	"Andi Kleen" <ak@...e.de>, "Kirill Korotaev" <dev@...nvz.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i386-show-unhandled-signals-v3

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:07:56 -0700
"Masoud Sharbiani" <masouds@...gle.com> wrote:

> On 7/25/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:57:43 +0200
> > Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wednesday 25 July 2007 16:45, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> > > > plz don't enable it by default... :/
> > > > any user can spam syslog with these messages and if syslog is run as root
> > > > can take the whole diskspace...
> > >
> > > There are plenty of other ways to cause syslog messages anyways;
> >
> > tell us what they are and we'll fix them?
> >
> > > this argument is 100% bogus.
> >
> > people don't like leaving themselves open to logspamming.
> >
> >
> > For this particular issue: someone please send a patch.
> >
> Andrew,
> This is rate limited; Do you need me to rewrite it with it being
> disabled by default?
> 

Yes please.

Look: if there's a way in which an unprivileged user can trigger a printk
we fix it, end of story.  I don't know why this even slightly
controversial.

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