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From: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent reading uninitialized memory with socket
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:19:26 -0500
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For reasons I don't understand, this code seems to cause some people's
machines to lock up:

BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 10s! [dz:11844]

I haven't been able to reproduce this myself.  Very strange.  I'll send
a stack trace if I can reproduce.

-Dan

On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 06:12 -0500, Dan Rosenberg wrote:
> > 
> > Prove it.
> 
> I hope this was a joke.  In either case, my reply is a joke:
> 
> http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2010-November/077321.html