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

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Apr 26 2016 - 07:01:19 EST


On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 01:23:36PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I really don't think this should be about open/close, but about rate
> limiting writes.

FWIW, I've taken your ratelimiting change into SLES at the time the
whole "fun" happened and we haven't had any complaints with it so far:

http://kernel.opensuse.org/cgit/kernel-source/commit/?id=bcda8bd37b684cfa63813c255594f32f5b268758

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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