From: Waldemar Brodkorb <w...@openadk.org> Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 16:40:45 +0200
> Hi Adrian, > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote, > >> On 06/02/2017 07:28 PM, David Miller wrote: >> >> Isn't a bug in the kernel if an application is able to crash to the point >> >> that the machine has to be hard-rebooted? >> > >> > It can be a bug in the compiler too and not necessarily the kernel's >> > fault which is what I think is happening in your case. >> >> So, in your point of view it's perfectly fine if an application is able >> to crash the whole kernel with just user privileges? >> >> Shouldn't the kernel be able to cope with that? > > I think he means your kernel you are running might be miscompiled > with gcc 7.1. That's exactly what I am saying.
