Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:19:47 +0100 From: Dennis berger <db@nipsi.de> To: Philippe PEGON <Philippe.Pegon@crc.u-strasbg.fr> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: show stopper for FreeBSD 6 Message-ID: <4368AEE3.6030206@nipsi.de> In-Reply-To: <4366879A.7090603@crc.u-strasbg.fr> References: <4366879A.7090603@crc.u-strasbg.fr>
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Philippe PEGON wrote: > Hi, > > I know that it's a bit late for FreeBSD 6 release, but I think this > issue is a significant problem for FreeBSD : > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/83375 > > our productions servers with FreeBSD 5.4 reboots every week with this > panic and we are not alone. We hoped that FreeBSD 6 would have solved > this problem after this thread on freebsd-stable : > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-stable/2005-June/016154.html > > > I have just tested with FreeBSD 6-RC1 and the problem remains here. > Moreover, I think it's also a security issue because a single user, with > a shell account on an FreeBSD SMP box, could trigger a panic with a > simple shell script like that one (posted by Marc Olzheim in PR 83375), > it's annoying particularly in a multi-user environment : > > #!/bin/sh > > count=0 > while true > do > screen -d -m -c "${PWD}/.screenrc.crashpts" & > count=$(($count+1)) > if [ $(($count%100)) = 0 ] > then > killall screen > sleep 2 > killall -9 screen > fi > done > > -- > Philippe PEGON > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" i'm currently running this script on freebsd 6.0RC1 with SMP kernel and I got page fault while in kernel mode... after running this script for 5-10 minutes... i'll test it on a releng_6_0 from today. regards, Dennis
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