Re: Userspace process may be able to DoS kernel

Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-12T22:04:40Z

>> >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

But modinfo (vermagic) prints PREEMPT at least the former case too,
which is a little bit misleading.

-`J'
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