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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 11:56:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1160668565.24931.33.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <474c7c2f0610110954y46b68a14q17b88a5e28ffe8d9@mail.gmail.com>

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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-12 15:55 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 [this message]
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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