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DateWed, 14 Aug 2002 00:05:46 -0400
FromBenjamin LaHaise <>
SubjectRe: [patch] printk from userspace
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:00:38PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> First of all, only CAP_SYS_ADMIN.  As far as spamming the ring buffer, 
> that's trivial to do today by just sending a bunch of bad network 
> packets,

Not true, network logging is rate limited.

> or attaching a USB CD-ROM without a disc in the drive (yes, 
> really... on my wife's laptop it was so bad that unless she unplugged 
> the CD-ROM syslogd was eating her system alive), or...

Well, that's more of a bug and requires console access anyways.

		-ben
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