Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422732AbWJLPzM (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:55:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422728AbWJLPzM (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:55:12 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:48062 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1422725AbWJLPzK (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:55:10 -0400 Subject: Re: Userspace process may be able to DoS kernel From: Lee Revell To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Starnberger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <474c7c2f0610110954y46b68a14q17b88a5e28ffe8d9@mail.gmail.com> References: <474c7c2f0610110954y46b68a14q17b88a5e28ffe8d9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:56:05 -0400 Message-Id: <1160668565.24931.33.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 747 Lines: 17 On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 12:54 -0400, G?nther Starnberger wrote: > As most users who reported this problem are using Ubuntu, > the problem may be related to one of the settings in Ubuntu's kernel > config. The configuration of my kernel is also based on the Ubuntu > kernel config. As I am not using the patched kernel by Ubuntu I hope > that the LKML is the right place to report this issue. IIRC Ubuntu is the only major distro that ships with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y. Any difference if you disable it? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/