Reply to post: Re: " allowing 'buggy' processes to run"

Some 'security people are f*cking morons' says Linus Torvalds

patrickstar

Re: " allowing 'buggy' processes to run"

The kernel would be pretty darn likely to crash if a bug like what this patch is targeted at would be triggered. This just crashes it in a way that doesn't turn it into a security vulnerability (plus simplifies debugging since it immediately tells a developer what's wrong and where the problem is, as opposed to crashing some random time later).

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