Re: [patch] printk from userspace

From: Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 22:58:03 EST

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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 08:18:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
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> The patch allows userspace to issue printk's, via sys_syslog():

This is an incredibly bad idea. It has security hole written all over it.
Any user can now spam the kernel's log ringbuffer and overrun potentially
important messages.

-ben
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