Re: [PATCH] kmsg: Honor dmesg_restrict sysctl on /dev/kmsg

From: Josh Boyer
Date: Mon Apr 08 2013 - 20:51:12 EST


On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 02:34:38PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Kees Cook" <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Eric Paris" <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Linus Torvalds"
> >> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Christian Kujau" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "# 3.4.x" <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> >> "LKML" <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Monday, April 1, 2013 7:51:57 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmsg: Honor dmesg_restrict sysctl on /dev/kmsg
> >>
> >> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 02:54:48PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> poke. Nothing got applied. I'll drop
> >> >> kmsg-honor-dmesg_restrict-sysctl-on-dev-kmsg.patch, see if that has any
> >> >> effect ;)
> >> >
> >> > Oh dear.
> >> >
> >> > Eric, were you going to cleanup your suggestion and send it out?
> >>
> >> Ping? What state is this in?
> >
> > If Eric doesn't send a patch tomorrow, I will. Fedora is carrying my
> > original patch, but I'd rather get this fixed everywhere.
>
> Pinging again here. Any news on this?

I am now almost as delinquent as Eric. I owe you one beer of your
choice. You can add one beer to that tally every day until I send out a
cleaned up patch. Maybe that will motivate me to send one.

More seriously, I was on PTO at the end of last week and this fell off
my plate. I will clean it up and test it tomorrow, with the aim of
actually sending something tomorrow afternoon.

josh
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