Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:25:29 -0800 From: Peter Sanchez <petersanchez@gmail.com> To: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland) Message-ID: <268BFF3D-3853-40D5-9D69-6FC876E07ABB@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080218150748.GD90004@atarininja.org> References: <a9f4a3860802180527k6fcfbdaeuf235540075b263b5@mail.gmail.com> <200802181414.m1IEE8bd075081@drugs.dv.isc.org> <20080218150748.GD90004@atarininja.org>
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On Feb 18, 2008, at 7:07 AM, Wesley Shields wrote: >> > > I tried this using /tmp/ as argv[1] and it didn't crash a 6.2 > machine or > a -current from a few weeks ago. Maybe the number of files has to be > increased? I bumped it up to 100000 and tried on a 6.2 machine, but I > ran out of inodes before I could induce a crash. :) > > Maybe I'm doing something wrong? I believe the panic doesn't occur until boot. Did you reboot the box after writing the files to /tmp? Peter > > > -- WXS > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > "
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