From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: "Günther Starnberger" <gst@sysfrog.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Userspace process may be able to DoS kernel
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:19:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1160669968.24931.38.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0610121810050.28908@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 18:10 +0200, Jan Engelhardt 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?
>
> SUSE uses CONFIG_PREEMPT(?) Voluntary Preemption too.
CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY != CONFIG_PREEMPT
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-12 16:18 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
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 [this message]
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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