Re: crash in timerfd building pandoc / ghc94 related

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 09:19:26PM -0500, Mouse wrote:
 > Perhaps the simplest is
 > 
 > dd if=/dev/urandom bs=65536 of=/dev/mem
 > 
 > but there are others.
 > 
 > Yet I can't help feeling that there is some sense in which it *is* fair
 > to say that userland should never be able to crash the kernel.  I have
 > been mulling over this paradox for some time but have not come up with
 > an alternative phrasing that avoids the reasonable crashes while still
 > capturing a significant fraction of the useful meaning.

Arguably, /dev/mem just shouldn't exist... I'm not sure there are
actually reasonable crashes.

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David A. Holland
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