On Thu, May 31 2007, Anand Jahagirdar wrote: > 2) Printk message in my patch will definitely help Administrator/Root > User to detect which particular user is trying fork bombing attack on > his machine by looking at /var/log/messages or dmesg . he can take > action against that particular user and kill his processes.
You just opened a DoS possibility for any user, they can now flood the syslog instead. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
