I'm going to mark this as fixed with respect to stress-ng changes + disabling this in the tests. Running this stressor as root will cause issues; this is a know problem with running root privileged memory sucking stressors.
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1692668 Title: stress-ng sockfd stressor kills 4.11 kernels To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1692668/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs