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Date:   Thu, 24 Jun 2021 10:40:52 +0100
From:   Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
To:     Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] kthread: pass in user and check RLIMIT_NPROC
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On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 10:08:01PM -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> The vhost driver will create a kthread when userspace does a
> VHOST_SET_OWNER ioctl, but the thread is charged to the kthreadd thread.
> We can then end up violating the userspace process's RLIMIT_NPROC. This
> patchset allows drivers to pass in the user to charge/check.
>=20
> The patches were made over Linus's current tree.

Makes sense from a vhost perspective and for future users, but I'm not
familiar with the kthread internals:

Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

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