[issue599] 1.9.0 reproducable panic
Joerg Sonnenberger
joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Apr 11 22:54:22 PDT 2007
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 03:52:30PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> I'm a bit at a loss a to why netstat -an would trigger the problem,
> though. We do know that anything that accesses /dev/kmem heavily,
> like fstat, can crash the machine while chasing down stale pointers
> in kernel memory. But this panic seems a bit at odds with the sort
> of crash I would expect from stale pointer chasing.
netstat -an uses a sysctl interface though.
Joerg
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