Re: Userspace process may be able to DoS kernel

From: Joerg Platte
Date: Thu Oct 12 2006 - 16:11:37 EST


Am Donnerstag, 12. Oktober 2006 13:57 schrieb Pekka Enberg:
> If that is the case, you can do git bisect to help us narrow down the
> cause. See
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/isolate-bugs-with-bis
>ect.txt for further details.

Not that easy, since it takes a few hours to be able to trigger the bug. I
tried to record the system calls with strace but without success. Skype did
not cause any lockups and then crashes... Maybe the timing is too different
with strace.

regards,
Jörg
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/