The access denied message in the dmesg log reveals no more information
than strace on stat of a local file does (which also returns access
denied and displays access denied), but I agree that logging on
-EACCESS on lookup does clutter the log.
I think it is ok to log a message on unexpected errors
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 05:55 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Fix information leak in CIFS client lookup
>
> Putting arbitary file names on lookup failures into the system log is not
> a good idea, because usually everybody can read dmesg and that is thus
> an information leak if a directory was read pr
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