[Bug 97643] Shader crashes radeon driver and brings the whole system down

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97643

--- Comment #8 from almos <aaalmosss at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Cris from comment #7)
> (In reply to Nicolai Hähnle from comment #6)
> > Cris, do please try with more recent Mesa + LLVM as well.
> > 
> > If that still crashes, can you provide a backtrace of where mpv crashes?
> > dmesg output from the crash could also give some context.
> 
> I did, I upgraded to llvm-3.9.0 and mesa-git, and the issue went away. Most
> conservative distros might have a hard time though.
> 
> Thanks anyway.

Doesn't that mean that a userspace code can crash the kernel, but the most
recent version of that code doesn't do it? Ideally, the kernel should be more
resilient than that IMHO.

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