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Re: "crashme" test affects linux<=2.6.17.2+



On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:30:43AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:35:38AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > The testcase given by crashme.c (crashme +2000.80 666 100 1:10:30 2)
> > seems to have effects which shouldn't be possible for an unprivledged
> > process (PID1/2 respawn too fast..).  This affects
> > linux-image-2.6.17-2-686 2.6.17-8 but does not affect
> > linux-image-2.6.18-1-686 2.6.18-1.
> > 
> > Was this a known problem?  Can someone provide a reference for it?

> 2.6.18 is the supported kernel for etch.
> we haven't put any work on 2.6.17 since long,
> please migrate.
Of course; I was just trying to narrow the range of changelogs to
read.  I also saw the problem on 2.6.16, but I'm not sure even if this
is a useful way of checking..

Justin



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