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A module for crashing the kernel

A module for crashing the kernel

Posted Jan 28, 2010 9:31 UTC (Thu) by SimonKagstrom (subscriber, #49801)
In reply to: A module for crashing the kernel by pr1268
Parent article: A module for crashing the kernel

I did add some helpful Kconfig messages for that: NOTE: This feature is dangerous! [...] If unsure, say N. :-).

There was some opposition against it (NULL dereferences can be done through /proc/sysrq-trigger already) so it looks like it won't get merged. Anyway, the patch is out now, so if someone else needs something similar it should be easy to find.


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