Re: Userspace process may be able to DoS kernel

[Lee Revell]

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 12:54 -0400, Günther Starnberger wrote:
> As most users who reported this problem are using Ubuntu,
> the problem may be related to one of the settings in Ubuntu's kernel
> config. The configuration of my kernel is also based on the Ubuntu
> kernel config. As I am not using the patched kernel by Ubuntu I hope
> that the LKML is the right place to report this issue. 

IIRC Ubuntu is the only major distro that ships with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y.
Any difference if you disable it?

Lee

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