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Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2017 16:22:26 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: wbx@...nadk.org Cc: glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: sparc gcc 7.1 compile issue From: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@...nadk.org> Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 16:40:45 +0200 > Hi Adrian, > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote, > >> On 06/02/2017 07:28 PM, David Miller wrote: >> >> Isn't a bug in the kernel if an application is able to crash to the point >> >> that the machine has to be hard-rebooted? >> > >> > It can be a bug in the compiler too and not necessarily the kernel's >> > fault which is what I think is happening in your case. >> >> So, in your point of view it's perfectly fine if an application is able >> to crash the whole kernel with just user privileges? >> >> Shouldn't the kernel be able to cope with that? > > I think he means your kernel you are running might be miscompiled > with gcc 7.1. That's exactly what I am saying.
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