Re: [PATCH] pktgen: Remove a dangerous debug print.

[David Miller]

From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:28:08 -0400

> How would you feel about limiting the debug print to at most, say, 512 or 1024
> bytes? Even if it's only accessible to root by default, I don't a userspace
> program should be able to accidentally corrupt the kernel stack by writing too
> many bytes to a file in /proc.

Why not?  He can just as easily "cat whatever >/dev/kmem" or similar?
And I'm sure there are other proc files that can cause similar damage
such as the PCI device control files.
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