Re: Userspace process may be able to DoS kernel

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> 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?

SUSE uses CONFIG_PREEMPT(?) Voluntary Preemption too.


	-`J'
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