On 4/29/07, Daniel de Kok danieldk@pobox.com wrote:

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 14:12 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:

...

Is it possible to crash a system just by running the find command? I connected to a machine running CentOS 5.0 x86_64 and issued a command:

find / -name filename -print

No, that shouldn't crash a system.

-- Daniel

It shouldn't...under normal circumstances. Now, this is an embarrassing situation. I spoke too soon. After installing CentOS 5, I left this particular system unpatched *on purpose* so that I can observe the kernel oops caused by the known cifs bug. Because the system crash did not occur for a few days, I had forgotten about it. Apparently, the find command triggered the crash. Now that the system is proven unstable, I will go ahead and install the patched cifs.ko provided by Johnny. Sorry for the noise, but I needed to confirm that the patch really works.

Akemi