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Kernel oops on 32 bits arch


From: Pierre Schweitzer <pierre () reactos org>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 17:20:02 +0200

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Dear all,

This bug report has been brought to my attention [1] where under high
load a server can be oopsed, be it grsec or vanilla kernel.

Apparently, it's due to a partial fix that would have only be deployed
to 64 bits Linux [2].

Has anyone more info on this? Like why there was only a 64 bits fix?
Was a CVE assigned for this?

Cheers,

[1]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536040
[2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/29/497
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Pierre Schweitzer <pierre () reactos org>
System & Network Administrator
Senior Kernel Developer
ReactOS Deutschland e.V.
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