From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933054AbXCMTTa (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:19:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933534AbXCMTTa (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:19:30 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:34147 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933054AbXCMTT3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:19:29 -0400 From: Andreas Schwab To: Johannes Bauer Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: x86_64 system lockup from userspace using setitimer() References: <45F6F3A6.9060405@gmx.de> X-Yow: I want you to organize my PASTRY trays... my TEA-TINS are gleaming in formation like a ROW of DRUM MAJORETTES -- please don't be FURIOUS with me -- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:19:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: <45F6F3A6.9060405@gmx.de> (Johannes Bauer's message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:55:34 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Johannes Bauer writes: > Dear Community, > > I think I've encountered a bug with the Linux kernel which results in a > complete system lockup and which can be started without root > priviliges. It's reproducible with 2.6.20.1 and 2.6.20.2 and only x64_64 > seems affected. I can also reproduce it on ia64 with 2.6.20. 2.6.16.42 is ok. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."