On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 11:51:39 -0700 Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 11:42:51 -0700 Linus Torvalds > <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > Most users will never notice. The whole "writable /dev/kmsg" may go > > back to 2002, but there aren't _that_ many users, and pretty much all > > I've ever seen tend to write the occasional "I started up" messages or > > other very small notes. I had to write a test-script to trigger even > > the (very draconian) default ratelimits. > > Is there anything here that we really need to fix? What goes wrong if > we leave kmsg as-is and systemd gets fixed? I saw one commenter say that this was a kernel bug because writing to kmsg shouldn't cause the system to hang. The rate-limit patch would go along with that idea, and I honestly think it would be good to rate-limit it in case something else breaks and starts spamming kmsg. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
