leaky kernel ? ;)

[marcys () FREE COM PL (mIV)]

OK, there's RH 6.1 on 2.2.13. Let's take a look at /var/log/messages:

Dec  2 13:28:48 pentium kernel: age....
Dec  2 13:28:55 pentium kernel: 65 lated me
Dec  2 13:28:58 pentium kernel:  6C original
Dec  2 13:28:58 pentium kernel: ine as
Dec  2 13:29:07 pentium kernel: age....
Dec  2 13:29:14 pentium kernel: ge....-
Dec 11 14:21:46 pentium kernel:  20 ...This
Dec 11 14:22:49 pentium kernel:  3em te=B
Dec 11 14:22:53 pentium kernel: 4B , ze ACK

and so on ... Do you know where are these strings from ? I'll tell ya.
It's all from my mail fetched by fetchmail (via PPP). OK, these were
strings but we have also sth like this:

Dec 13 22:24:38 pentium kernel: 40 21 4C BB F4 6F 5F DD @!L..o_.
Dec 13 22:24:39 pentium kernel: C4 41 74 3F BD 54 47 B9 .At?.TG.

These in turn look like some kind of binary dump. Apparently not only mail
fragments land in my logs. It seems that entire net traffic is affected.
There's no need for sniffer in this case ;)

That's not good when some net packets are dumped to system logs, is it ?
Is it a bug ? If so, is it known to kernel developers ?

greetz,
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