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The Linux crashes weren't quite comparable. They accidentally triggered a bug in Red Hat's kernel patches rather than write a bad driver themselves. They can w
by jeroenhd 2y ago
The Linux crashes weren't quite comparable. They accidentally triggered a bug in Red Hat's kernel patches rather than write a bad driver themselves.
They can wreak all kinds of havoc with bad eBPF programs, but so far they haven't as far as I know.
- Analemma_ 2y agoI mean from a certain POV the Linux crashes were worse. Everybody understands that buggy kernel-mode drivers can bring down the OS and it's not the OS vendor's fault, but the Linux crashes were exactly what eBPF was supposed to make impossible.