[systemd-devel] systemd-udevd Oops

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 04:20:05PM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> Basically, I don't think this problem is the driver. I think the problem
> is systemd/udev related so I'm posting this here hoping the get some
> input on what the problem is.
If the kernel crashes, then it's kernel's fault (usually). Here
systemd-udevd triggers the crash in the kernel, by causing it to
dereference NULL, when it interacts with it. But it still is a bug in
the kernel if a user-space application can crash it in this way.

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