Re: BIG PROBLEM

[Ryan W. Maple]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Justin Guyett wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> 
> > Some versions of the 3c59x driver emit a NUL character on bootup which makes
> > klogd suck CPU.  This is fixed in 2.4.5, dunno about 2.4.4.
> 
> sysklogd 1.4.1 changelog lists a no busyloop fix.

Check out:  http://bugs.debian.org/85478

  "When klogd's LogLine() function encounters a null byte in state
   PARSING_TEXT, it will loop infinitely.  More precisely, copyin()
   will treat the null byte as a delimiter - unlike LogLine(), which
   will invoke copyin() ever and ever again."

Kinda off-topic, but I just wanted to prove that the bug was in klogd and
not the kernel. :)

-r