On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 06:03:38PM +0100, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Can XYZ evil bastard with the source code construct a non setuid application
> that causes the absolute worst case behaviour and deadlocks or crashes the
> machine.
>
> As I understand it now the answer to that is yes - for reiser, xfs and ext3
> (in fact more so for ext3 than the others)
As I get it demonstrated every day, this is true for 2.2.16, ext2 and/or
reiserfs, trivially, even on 512mb machines. memory full, bad things
happen (e.g. freeze) ;)
> Its a bad idea to ship code with a hard to fix problem that may pop up on
Indeed. Happens all the time, unfortunately :(
-- -----==- | ----==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / pcg@opengroup.org |e| -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | |- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Aug 15 2000 - 21:00:33 EST