Re: (forw) [DNG] Linux system can be brought down by sending SIGILL to Systemd

Joey Hess <id-kKHqiocxru1BDLzU/[email protected]> Sat, 25 May 2019 12:36:29 -0400

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Which is better, an init that receives an accidental ILL signal due to
the root user's error and ceases running, or an init that receives an ILL
due to actually trying to run an instruction that the CPU does not
support and ignores the problem and continues running?

The answer to that is perhaps less clear-cut than Martin Steigerwald would
have you believe. Bear in mind that in the second case the init has no
idea what state the CPU is in after the ILL. See also mozilla's old
behavior of catching and ignoring SEGV.

I do wonder if systemd is doing more work in its signal handler than
is wise and has a re-entrancy problem that these repeated
signals are sometimes triggering.

-- 
see shy jo

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