Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161017AbWJKIAa (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:00:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161015AbWJKIAa (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:00:30 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:12951 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161014AbWJKIA3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:00:29 -0400 Subject: Re: Removing MAX_ARG_PAGES (request for comments/assistance) From: Arjan van de Ven To: Ollie Wild Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, David Howells In-Reply-To: <65dd6fd50610101705t3db93a72sc0847cd120aa05d3@mail.gmail.com> References: <65dd6fd50610101705t3db93a72sc0847cd120aa05d3@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:00:21 +0200 Message-Id: <1160553621.3000.355.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 579 Lines: 15 On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 17:05 -0700, Ollie Wild wrote: on first sight it looks like you pin the entire userspace buffer at the same time (but I can misread the code; this stuff is a bit of a spaghetti by nature); that would be a DoS scenario if true... -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com - 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/