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Bug#908570: linux 4.18: dmesg readable as normal user

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From Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>
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Subject Bug#908570: linux 4.18: dmesg readable as normal user
Date Tue, 11 Sep 2018 12:10:01 +0200
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Source: linux
Version: 4.18.6-1

Unfortunately I have experienced this on a rebuilt package and cannot 
easily test with the one actually in Debian unstable, but for me dmesg 
seems to work as a normal user again. "cat /dev/kmsg" just works:

[...]
open("/dev/kmsg", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK)  = 3
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_DATA)                  = 0
read(3, "5,0,0,-;Linux version 4.18.0-1ro"..., 8191) = 157
[...]

% grep DMESG /boot/config-4.18.0-1rodete1-amd64
CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT=y

(We do very, very minimal patching to the kernel to make it work for us, 
hence the different ABI version. And it'd really help us if the ABI 
version were to be bumped with every upload.)

Kind regards and thanks
Philipp Kern

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Bug#908570: linux 4.18: dmesg readable as normal user Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> - 2018-09-11 12:10 +0200
  Bug#908570: linux 4.18: dmesg readable as normal user Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> - 2018-09-11 13:10 +0200
  Bug#908570: linux 4.18: dmesg readable as normal user Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2018-09-11 13:20 +0200
  Bug#908570: marked as done (linux 4.18: dmesg readable as normal  user) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2018-09-11 15:00 +0200

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