Re: Userspace process may be able to DoS kernel

Lee Revell
2006-10-12T16:18:35Z

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