Bug 359585 – app-admin/syslog-ng and kernel 2.6.38+ caps bug

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Reuben Martin 2011-03-20 04:03:42 UTC]

Issue seems related to this:
https://bugzilla.balabit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=108


from dmesg:

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WARNING: at kernel/printk.c:288 do_syslog+0xc7/0x510()
Hardware name: MS-7640
Attempt to access syslog with CAP_SYS_ADMIN but no CAP_SYSLOG (deprecated).
Modules linked in: snd_virmidi snd_seq_virmidi snd_rawmidi snd_aloop microcode nvidia(P) snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep
Pid: 2336, comm: syslog-ng Tainted: P            2.6.38-gentoo #1
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8106a76b>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x7b/0xc0
 [<ffffffff8106a865>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x45/0x50
 [<ffffffff8116fc00>] ? proc_root_lookup+0x20/0x60
 [<ffffffff8106b8a7>] ? do_syslog+0xc7/0x510
 [<ffffffff81129f59>] ? do_lookup+0x119/0x2d0
 [<ffffffff81129c63>] ? nameidata_drop_rcu+0xd3/0x130
 [<ffffffff81179f20>] ? kmsg_release+0x0/0x20
 [<ffffffff8116f191>] ? proc_reg_open+0xa1/0x190
 [<ffffffff81179f40>] ? kmsg_open+0x0/0x20
 [<ffffffff8116f0f0>] ? proc_reg_open+0x0/0x190
 [<ffffffff8111cc3d>] ? __dentry_open+0x10d/0x320
 [<ffffffff8112c868>] ? finish_open+0xc8/0x190
 [<ffffffff8112b682>] ? do_path_lookup+0x82/0x160
 [<ffffffff8112cfc5>] ? do_filp_open+0x2b5/0x760
 [<ffffffff81153c5d>] ? fsnotify_clear_marks_by_inode+0x8d/0xe0
 [<ffffffff81136d5d>] ? __destroy_inode+0x1d/0x90
 [<ffffffff81122d20>] ? cp_new_stat+0xe0/0x100
 [<ffffffff811393a4>] ? alloc_fd+0xe4/0x130
 [<ffffffff8111def4>] ? do_sys_open+0x64/0x110
 [<ffffffff8102f33b>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
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Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Paramonov Valeriy 2011-03-21 16:08:23 UTC]

I have this bug too on AMD64.

[Comment 2 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2011-03-22 05:03:24 UTC]

Yes, there's a warning.  That's not very interesting.  By the time it's a real error there will be a new version of syslog-ng.