Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751249AbdFDNQm (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jun 2017 09:16:42 -0400 Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.66]:54764 "EHLO outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751157AbdFDNQh (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jun 2017 09:16:37 -0400 Subject: Re: sparc gcc 7.1 compile issue To: David Miller References: <20170602091717.GA7452@physik.fu-berlin.de> <20170602.102259.363059784928463769.davem@davemloft.net> <1f8e2488-d051-7688-2d40-089f4acab6ce@physik.fu-berlin.de> <20170602.132809.1754806777743128355.davem@davemloft.net> Cc: wbx@openadk.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Message-ID: Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 15:16:33 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170602.132809.1754806777743128355.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 93.193.85.89 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 695 Lines: 19 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? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913