linux-kernel - Re: i386-show-unhandled-signals-v3

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Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:17:28 +0200
From:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Masoud Sharbiani <masouds@...gle.com>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i386-show-unhandled-signals-v3

On 07/26/2007 12:16 PM, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:46:23 +0200
> Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> wrote:
> 
>>> Look: if there's a way in which an unprivileged user can trigger a printk
>>> we fix it, end of story. 
>> I'm firmly against disabling it on x86-64 by default. The printks are extremly
>> useful and have found many bugs in the past.
> 
> Then add the rate limiting by default.

The messages were rate limited -- Andrew said they couldn't be on default even 
rate limited.

Rene.
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