Re: system crash by "find" (solved)

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On 4/29/07, Daniel de Kok <danieldk@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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