On 2020-02-08 16:40, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > When booting, the contents of the existing dmesg buffer are examined. > If the current contents are deemed to be a dmesg, it is not cleared. > It's possible the (random) contents of the buffer are seen as valid by > chance and are thus regarded as dmesg content.
When I have seen it, it has been dmesg intermingled with other bytes. It is a little worrying to see but I assume this is by design (no crc/checksum) in case something useful is retrievable? I guess Stus reference to UEFI doesn't suggest it can expose anything sensitive?
