Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261173AbVAMGzS (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 01:55:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261177AbVAMGzS (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 01:55:18 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:11181 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261173AbVAMGzP (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 01:55:15 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:54:12 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: davej@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, greg@kroah.com, chrisw@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: thoughts on kernel security issues Message-Id: <20050112225412.5957c5d7.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050113044942.GI14443@holomorphy.com> References: <20050112185133.GA10687@kroah.com> <20050112161227.GF32024@logos.cnet> <20050112205350.GM24518@redhat.com> <20050112182838.2aa7eec2.akpm@osdl.org> <20050113033542.GC1212@redhat.com> <20050112194239.0a7b720b.akpm@osdl.org> <20050113044942.GI14443@holomorphy.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 633 Lines: 14 William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > Most of the local DoS's I'm aware of are memory management -related, > i.e. user- triggerable proliferation of pinned kernel data structures. Well. A heck of a lot of the DoS opportunities we've historically seen involved memory leaks, deadlocks or making the kernel go oops or BUG with locks held or with kernel memory allocated. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/