linux-kernel - Re: shouldn't a non-privileged malformed sprintf crashes the kernel

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Date:	Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:58:13 +0100
From:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	boinc_dev@....berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: shouldn't a non-privileged malformed sprintf crashes the kernel

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de> wrote:
> This is the 2nd time in a row that a stable kernel (3.7.8 currently) crashes in such a way
> that even the sys-rq key doesn't work any longer.
> Found nothing in the log. The screen shot is here [1]. First time this issue was reported in [2].
>
> The bug seems to be triggered by the BOINC client - I'm running the alpha version of it [3].
>
> I'm wondering whether the sprintf issue discussed in [4] is the trigger for the bug
> (I attached that message here b/c the BOINC devs doesn't allow just even read access
> to the mail archive w/o registering).

Why "non-privileged malformed sprintf"? This makes no sense to me.
Your kernel crashed both times while reading from /proc/interrupts.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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