linux-kernel - Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <200612211531.kBLFVuZ7013023@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:31:56 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@....ed.ac.uk>
Cc:	Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@...puserve.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:15:50 GMT, Alistair John Strachan said:
> Seems pretty unlikely on a 4 year old Via Epia. Never had any problems with it
> before now.
> 
> Maybe a cosmic ray event? ;-)

More likely a stray alpha particle from a radioactive decay in the actual chip
casing - I saw some research a while back that said that the average commodity
system should *expect* to see 1 or 2 alpha-induced single-bit errors per year,
and the chance that *you* saw the event was directly related to whether the
memory had ECC, and how much of the other circuitry had ECC on it....

Content of type "application/pgp-signature" skipped