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Subject: kernel-source-2.4.27: kernel locks up hard when do a "grep -r <some-string>
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Package: kernel-source-2.4.27
Version: 2.4.27-10
Severity: normal
While logged in as root, cd to /, three successive attempts to
"grep -r <some-string) *" resulted in my system being completed locked
up with no keyboard, mouse, or network response (ie. could not login
over network). Forced to remove power and reboot.
I am running with a custom kernel, would be happy to provide any other
information for debugging.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-a21m.2
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages kernel-source-2.4.27 depends on:
ii binutils 2.15-6 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii bzip2 1.0.2-7 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii fileutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU file management utilities
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From: maximilian attems <debian@sternwelten.at>
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Subject: Re: Bug#312646: kernel-source-2.4.27: kernel locks up hard when do a "grep -r <some-string> *" at root(/)
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On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, claytonk@163.com wrote:
> maks, it seems to be the /dev directory that is causing the problem, "grep -r string /dev" causes the lockup, and the last thing I see is "grep: dev/kmem: Bad address"
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> clayton
>
20:33 <hch> makx: doing random reads on /dev/mem for example is an easy
way to crash a box
so one better not grep it's dev tree as root.
--
maks
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