Bug 42871 - klogd: symbol sanity
Summary: klogd: symbol sanity
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: sysklogd
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-05-30 14:06 UTC by Stephen Cornell
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-05-30 14:57:08 UTC
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Description Stephen Cornell 2001-05-30 14:06:49 UTC
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By default, klogd doesn't check kernel symbol sanity, so can munge kernel oops data






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In /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog, klogd is run without the `-x' option, so uses System.map to translate kernel oops output.  Hosever, it does not check that System.map matches /proc/ksyms, so this data can be spurious.  It should either run with `-x' by default, or should check that System.map matches /proc/ksyms.  Or so the kernel hackers tell me.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-05-30 14:57:04 UTC
klogd by default in 7.1 runs with the -2 option, to preserve one copy for
ksymoops.


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