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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 23:58:03 -0400
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [patch] printk from userspace
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 08:18:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> 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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