Subject: Re: [Security] [SECURITY] Fix leaking of kernel heap addresses via /proc

From: Andi Kleen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 10:43:59 +0100

> When a printk() happens right before a BUG(), how are we going to check
> the dumped registers are possibly close the socket involved, if we dont
> have access to the machine, and only the crashlog ?

Is that really something you do regularly? It seems highly obscure
to me.

Besides if the kernel has timestamps enabled you can easily
guess based on the timestamps if the printk and the oops
are related.

-Andi