Proposal: Enabling DMESG_RESTRICT for Groovy Onward

[Brian Murray]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 07:44:55PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:40:36PM +1200, Matthew Ruffell wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > I am proposing that we enable the CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT [1] feature by
> > default for Groovy onward.
> 
> FTR: This change breaks kernel error reporting in apport, see
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1896095
> 
> for more information - as apport now can't read dmesg, and hence
> can't attach it to bugs.

There's a trivial fix which I'll upload today or tomorrow.

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Brian Murray