Re: local DDOS? Kernel panic when accessing /proc/ioports

From: Martin Loschwitz
Date: Fri Aug 05 2005 - 17:10:14 EST


On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 04:03:07PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 21:26 +0200, Martin Loschwitz wrote:
> > Ooops and ksymoops-output is attached.
>
> Also, don't use ksymoops for 2.6, it's redundant at best and at worst
> actually removes information. Check oops-tracing.txt, the docs have
> been updated.
>

Well, in this case, ksymoops output told me what I wanted to know -- the
thing explodes when reading /proc/ioports. I need to know why it does, if
the problem might be reproducible for others (that is the possible ddos
thing ...) and how to fix it ...

> Lee
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