Bugzilla Bug 131830

Ever since I upgraded to 2.6.16 kernel, I've been getting /var/log/messages
flooded with messages like these:

evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 34
evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 1, Code: 34, Value: 1
evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 34
evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 1, Code: 34, Value: 0
evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 28
evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 1, Code: 28, Value: 1
evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 28
evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 1, Code: 28, Value: 0
evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0

About two lines per keystroke are printed causing a flood in /var/log/messages.
Additionally, these are all visible in dmesg, so any user of the system can see
what any other user types.

I have "Event debugging" compiled as a module, but I don't load it explicitly
in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 . It seems that either hotplug or udev or
something loads it for me on boot.

As a temporary solution I renamed evbug.ko in
/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r3/kernel/drivers/input/ to evbug.ko-NOLOAD to
prevent auto-loading. I'd still like to be able to load this module once in a
while for debugging, so I don't want to completely take it out of the kernel
config.

Basically, autoloading this module really shouldn't be a default because it
floods /var/log/messages and also might be a security problem on multiuser
systems if event debugging is compiled as a module.

Portage 2.1_pre9-r5 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.5-r0,
2.6.16-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4     CPU
2.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre18
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -msse2"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env
/usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/init.d
/etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -msse2"
DISTDIR="/mnt/portage"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache confcache disctcc distlocks metadata-transfer
parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo
ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/"
LANG="en_CA.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_CA.utf8"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/poverlay"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi aim akode alsa amarok apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid
asf audiofile automount avantgo avi berkdb bigger-fonts bitmap-fonts bootsplash
browserplugin buttons bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom chm cli crypt
css curl curlwrappers dba dbus dbx dri dv dvd dvdread emboss encode escreen
examples exif expat fam fame ffmpeg firefox flac font-server foomaticdb fortran
fping fpx gd gdbm geoip gif gimpprint ginac gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphviz gs
gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl httpd iconv icq idea idn imagemagick imap
imlib inkjar ipv6 irc isdnlog ithreads jabber java javascript jikes jpeg
justify kde ldap libg++ libwww lj logrotate lzo mad madwifi maildir mailwrapper
matroska md5sum mikmod mime mjpeg mmx mng moznocompose moznoirc moznomail
moznoxft mp3 mpeg mplayer msn musepack mysql ncurses network nfs nls nntp nptl
nsplugin odbc offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam passwordsave pcmcia
pcre pda pdf pdflib perl php plotutils plugin png pnp povray pppd prelude
python pyzor qhull qt quicktime rar razor rdesktop readline real reflection rss
ruby samba sasl screen sdl session silc simplexml skins smime sndfile sockets
speedo speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl stream subtitles subversion svg svga
syslog tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tidy tiff tools transcode truetype
truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales utf8 vim-with-x
visualization vorbis webservices wifi win32codecs wmf wv wxwindows x11vnc xchat
xcomposite xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xorg xscreensaver xsl xv xvid xvmc yahoo
zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard
input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics kernel_linux userland_GNU
video_cards_ati video_cards_radeon video_cards_vga video_cards_none"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130766 ***