Comment 0 for bug 683938

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Thomas Bushnell, BSG (tbushnell) wrote :

Create an automount indirect map entry to a nfs server that will deny the mount with a permission denied error.
Create a symlink on some mounted NFS partition pointing at the name of that automount indirect map entry.
Chase the symlink with ls, etc.
Notice that the automounter tries and fails to mount the partition. (visible with automount -d -f, say)

In a few minutes, depending on system activity, the kernel will crash with the symptoms of a memory corruption error.