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Apparently that wasn't (entirely) CrowdStrike's fault: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41030352 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41030352 Whereas this
by skissane 2y ago
Apparently that wasn't (entirely) CrowdStrike's fault: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41030352 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41030352
Whereas this Windows outage rather obviously was.
eBPF being able to crash the kernel is usually sign of a kernel bug. And it sounds like in this case it was even a bug specific to Red Hat kernels, introduced by a Red Hat patch.
That said, even if they are triggering a Red Hat kernel bug, CrowdStrike should be testing their software adequately enough to pick up that issue before customers do – and it sounds like they haven't been