From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: "Günther Starnberger" <gst@sysfrog.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Userspace process may be able to DoS kernel
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:51:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1160668290.24931.31.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <474c7c2f0610110954y46b68a14q17b88a5e28ffe8d9@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 12:54 -0400, Günther Starnberger wrote:
> The lockup usually occurs when Skype 1.3.x for Linux (I'm using
> 1.3.0.53) sits around idle for some time and then (presumably) uses
> the sound device (i.e. for me it happens when I call a contact -
> others reported this problem occurs for incoming messages [there may
> be an audio notification of the messages enabled]). The lockup can
> take from several seconds (where it is not detected by the kernel) up
> to some minutes. The whole system seems to be blocked - i.e. there is
> not even disk IO.
Do you get the same behavior using the old OSS drivers that you get with
ALSA's OSS emulation?
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-12 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-11 16:54 Userspace process may be able to DoS kernel Günther Starnberger
2006-10-12 6:02 ` Joerg Platte
2006-10-12 6:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-10-12 10:54 ` Joerg Platte
2006-10-12 11:30 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-10-12 11:41 ` Joerg Platte
2006-10-12 11:57 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-10-12 20:11 ` Joerg Platte
2006-10-12 20:25 ` Günther Starnberger
2006-10-13 13:24 ` Joerg Platte
2006-10-12 15:51 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-10-12 16:55 ` Günther Starnberger
2006-10-12 17:05 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-12 20:30 ` Günther Starnberger
2006-10-12 20:37 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-12 15:56 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-12 16:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-12 16:19 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-12 22:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
[not found] ` <200611100803.03958.lists@naasa.net>
[not found] ` <20061109231958.f18cd1ef.akpm@osdl.org>
2006-11-11 12:29 ` Joerg Platte
2006-11-11 12:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-11 13:15 ` Joerg Platte
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