linux-kernel - Re: Userspace process may be able to DoS kernel

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Message-Id: <200610122211.16202.lists@naasa.net>
Date:	Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:11:14 +0200
From:	Joerg Platte <lists@...sa.net>
To:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	"Günther Starnberger" <gst@...frog.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Userspace process may be able to DoS kernel

Am Donnerstag, 12. Oktober 2006 13:57 schrieb Pekka Enberg:
> If that is the case, you can do git bisect to help us narrow down the
> cause. See
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/isolate-bugs-with-bis
>ect.txt for further details.

Not that easy, since it takes a few hours to be able to trigger the bug. I 
tried to record the system calls with strace but without success. Skype did 
not cause any lockups and then crashes... Maybe the timing is too different 
with strace.

regards,
Jörg
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