Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:58:13 +0100 | Subject | Re: shouldn't a non-privileged malformed sprintf crashes the kernel | From | richard -rw- weinberger <> |
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On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> wrote: > This is the 2nd time in a row that a stable kernel (3.7.8 currently) crashes in such a way > that even the sys-rq key doesn't work any longer. > Found nothing in the log. The screen shot is here [1]. First time this issue was reported in [2]. > > The bug seems to be triggered by the BOINC client - I'm running the alpha version of it [3]. > > I'm wondering whether the sprintf issue discussed in [4] is the trigger for the bug > (I attached that message here b/c the BOINC devs doesn't allow just even read access > to the mail archive w/o registering).
Why "non-privileged malformed sprintf"? This makes no sense to me. Your kernel crashed both times while reading from /proc/interrupts.
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