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by Yawrehto 703 days ago
1. How does eBPF solve this? It makes it more difficult, sure, but it'll almost always be possible to cause a crash, if you try hard enough. 2. More importantly, the problem is rarely fixable by changing technology, because typically, problems are caused by people and their connections: social/corporate pressures, profit-seeking, mental health being treated as unimportant, et cetera. eBPF can't fix those, and as long as corporations have social structures that penalize thoroughness and caution, and incentivize getting 'the most stuff' done, this will persist as a problem.
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> it'll almost always be possible to cause a crash, if you try hard enough.

If you think you know a way to crash the Linux kernel by loading and running an eBPF program, you should report a bug.