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Re: Logging a kernel message when blocking on entropy



On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 02:31:50PM +0300, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > I'm not sure we want a user-triggerable kernel printf enabled by default.
> > This could be used to DOS the system (especially on serial consoles)
> 
> You can already trigger kernel printfs as an unprivileged user.
> The first one that comes to mind is "sorry, pid %d was killed:
> orphaned traced process", but I'm sure there are many others.

I think we should find and remove theses (or make them conditional)
instead of adding unconditional new ones

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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