show stopper for FreeBSD 6

[Nate Eldredge]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, 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 :

I am looking at this.  I have a good idea what the problem is and will 
update tomorrow.

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Nate Eldredge
nge at cs.hmc.edu