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From what I've heard the majority of the problems we saw this time around were caused by a deadlock in NTP in a number of Linux kernels (2.6.21 until 3.3 I thin
by nicktelford 14y ago
From what I've heard the majority of the problems we saw this time around were caused by a deadlock in NTP in a number of Linux kernels (2.6.21 until 3.3 I think, although that might be wrong).
[source: http://www.mail-archive.com/git-commits-head@vger.kernel.org/msg15039.html http://www.mail-archive.com/git-commits-head@vger.kernel.org...]
I know that CentOS/RHEL 6 was affected, but CentOS/RHEL 5.5 (kernel 2.6.18) was not.
So I guess it's just a coincidence, a bug was introduced in a code path that's rarely executed and so lay dormant for some time, gaining more and more victims as time went by and people adopted kernels containing said bug.