Enabling the kernel's DMESG_RESTRICT feature

Martin Pitt martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Wed May 25 19:37:47 UTC 2011


Kees Cook [2011-05-25 12:05 -0700]:
> Currently, the upstream kernel folks have rejected filtering printk.

That's not actually what I meant. Don't filter the outputs of printk()
with some regexps. I meant "just kill the printk() call that prints
the address". Why would you even need to printk() it if the very thing
it prints out is not meant to be seen in logs?

Martin

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