Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161116AbWJKRNa (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:13:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161149AbWJKRNa (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:13:30 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.12]:20406 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161116AbWJKRN3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:13:29 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to: mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding: content-disposition:references; b=FcU+zjKB9YZSic4oBWdB/hZr1Tf31EEsgosPWCGQ8b7HPX5a9l2ydovPsPnsvsznj Xemkodm+F3ecd4hJ+56tA== Message-ID: <65dd6fd50610111013t6c783f3esc038c64abbcddeb0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:13:26 -0700 From: "Ollie Wild" To: "Arjan van de Ven" Subject: Re: Removing MAX_ARG_PAGES (request for comments/assistance) 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: <1160553621.3000.355.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <65dd6fd50610101705t3db93a72sc0847cd120aa05d3@mail.gmail.com> <1160553621.3000.355.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 520 Lines: 13 > 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... I'm not sure I understand. Could you please elaborate? Thanks, Ollie - 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/