Re: [PATCH 0/2] introduce DUMP_PREFIX_UNHASHED for hex dumps

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:39:12 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:30:02 -0600
> Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On 1/26/21 11:14 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:  
> > > If it was a boot option, I would personally be for leaving hashing enabled by
> > > default, with opt-in boot option to disable it.    
> > 
> > A boot option would solve all my problems.  I wouldn't need to recompile 
> > the kernel, and it would apply to all variations of printk.  
> 
> Should it be called "make-printk-insecure"
> 
> ?

And even if we make this a boot time option, perhaps we should still
include that nasty dmesg notice, which will let people know that the kernel
has unhashed values.

-- Steve