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Message-Id: <20070725162528.7d485ff8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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