Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:25:28 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: i386-show-unhandled-signals-v3 |
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On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:07:56 -0700 "Masoud Sharbiani" <masouds@google.com> wrote:
> On 7/25/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:57:43 +0200 > > Andi Kleen <ak@suse.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.
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