Bug#595927: Bug still happening, even with recent kernels

[Bernd Zeimetz <bzed@debian.org>]

On 05/20/2011 10:19 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> On 05/20/2011 09:55 AM, Bastian Blank wrote:
>> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 09:19:34AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>>> If a userspace prgram is able to trigger a kernel bug the kernel needs to be
>>> fixed, not userspace.
>>
>> The kernel works as documented. It is the task of userspace to use the
>> correct interface.
> 
> So what you say is that a kernel is allowed to crash just because
> userspace does something wrong?

(And please let me know what is wrong in using dd on a disk drive. I
assume you never read the bugzilla entry on kernel.org.)


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