From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264086AbTDWPoI (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:44:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264087AbTDWPoI (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:44:08 -0400 Received: from almesberger.net ([63.105.73.239]:57860 "EHLO host.almesberger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264086AbTDWPoG (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:44:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:56:03 -0300 From: Werner Almesberger To: Robert Love Cc: Julien Oster , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel ring buffer accessible by users Message-ID: <20030423125602.B1425@almesberger.net> References: <1051031876.707.804.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1051031876.707.804.camel@localhost>; from rml@tech9.net on Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 01:17:57PM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Robert Love wrote: > I think the problem is that kernel messages should not contain private > information, like ISDN phone numbers. Why is that even in the kernel? How do you know what is sensitive information ? A kernel debug message may just say something like "bad message 47 65 68 65 69 6d", and the kernel has no idea that this is actually a password ("Geheim"). - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina wa@almesberger.net / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/