How to cause kernel panic

Last week we have had to test a special state of a virtual instance in our new cluster at university – KERNEL PANIC 😉 So, how is the fastest was to cause it without executing malicious code? Here is the solution:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger

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