Re: 2.2.14pre13 - exception in __copy_user when running mount()

[Uncle George <gatgul voicenet com>]

I guess I got lost getting in the middle of this dialog.  What is exactly
buggy - alpha hardware - alpha software ?
Why would a DoS ( whatever that networking term be ) be more prevalent on
alpha.  What does either have to do with mount by 'root'.
gat


David S. Miller wrote:

>
> Alan owns the change, and it was done on purpose, and the behavior you
> see is correct, the Alpha port is the problem.
>
> Alpha is buggy for reporting exceptions wrt. user space accesses
> in the kernel logs, in fact it's a possible DoS attack on Alpha/Linux
> machines.
>
> So Alpha should be fixed.
>