Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:55:49 -0400 (EDT) | From | Cal Peake <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Improve the remove sysctl warnings. |
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:25:20PM -0400, Cal Peake wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > > > if (msg_count < 5) { > > > msg_count++; > > > printk(KERN_INFO > > > "warning: process `%s' used the removed sysctl " > > > - "system call\n", current->comm); > > > + "system call with ", current->comm); > > > + for (i = 0; i < tmp.nlen; i++) > > > + printk("%d.", name[i]); > > > + printk("\n"); > > > } > > > > We should prolly kill the counter now. > > sysctl(2) callable by everyone including local lusers willing to fill logs.
Users don't even need to write a program to do this, see logger(1). If we keep the counter then after 5 calls we lose potential debugging info.
- C.
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