On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:26:57PM -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
Problem with Debian patch is it may conflict with some of the RH backports, but if it works why not submit it to CentOS team for testing as I hear the RH current workaround has issues with GPFs.
I think that's with the powertech.no "ptpatch2008" kernel module which tries to patch the problem in your existing kernel -- not with the actual fix.
I personnally run my systems behind the firewall, but I suppose anybody who has CentOS/RHEL 5 that is Internet facing would worry a little bit more.
Do you ever use network-accessing applications which might have bugs?
I wonder if any existing user-land utilities have hooks into vmsplice that may be able to be accessed via PHP, Perl, or CGI?
It's a system call.