linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] printk: Add kernel parameter to disable writes to /dev/kmsg

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Message-ID: <20160425172333.6248f832@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Mon, 25 Apr 2016 17:23:33 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] printk: Add kernel parameter to disable writes to
 /dev/kmsg

On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:45:25 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> >
> > There's a bug somewhere with mine:
> >
> > # journalctl -k
> > No journal files were found.
> > -- No entries --  
> 
> Is that with your patch? If you don't allow kmsg open, maybe systemd
> doesn't end up logging for reads either?

Nope. This is on Debian testing, with sysvinit and a systemd-shim to
allow other parts to work. Perhaps that's where the breakage is.

-- Steve