From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261532AbULIPst (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:48:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261529AbULIPst (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:48:49 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:46003 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261532AbULIPsp (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:48:45 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ed L Cashin Subject: Re: [PATCH] ATA over Ethernet driver for 2.6.9 Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 10:48:43 -0500 Message-ID: <87oeh35v6s.fsf@coraid.com> References: <87acsrqval.fsf@coraid.com> <20041206215456.GB10499@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-34-230-221.asm.bellsouth.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Qv/HVtbkccNPySi34XAus83ObD8= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH writes: ... >> + printk(KERN_INFO "aoe: aoeblk_ioctl: unknown ioctl %d\n", cmd); > > So I can flood the syslog by sending improper ioctls to the driver? > That's not nice... Wouldn't root be the only user who could do that? When would this happen? If it's happening by accident, then something's wrong, and it's helpful to make it known that something's wrong. If it's on purpose, then somebody has root and is doing malicious things, in which case syslog flooding is the least of our worries. They could do the same thing using "logger" anyway. -- Ed L Cashin