Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759649AbXHTOi4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:38:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750869AbXHTOiq (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:38:46 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.230]:56402 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750908AbXHTOip (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:38:45 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fb/KDyQ4x/98QEyDX0Z/ZexY/vwHkHEXAvSMPvZNSKScIm+U9RaS51X6j+Wi/sLJoMmcjLh5HNIazlE/jcsbR727onbaNRL7rKDKR6a52WUbtvWyoWcgYiRBRv0CdmpT2aWuCHQfWwQ2Wgv/yvnM8WDuUSADtcBJu5HD7CVA7qQ= Message-ID: <9a8748490708200738o36374d63ib5c71d5dc8dc9978@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:38:41 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Anand Jahagirdar" Subject: Re: Fork Bombing Patch Cc: "Krzysztof Halasa" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <25ae38200708200726tdf097b1kcd0269cf11c53bf3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <25ae38200708152324t4cbadc24ge05cd75f8f0e60e4@mail.gmail.com> <25ae38200708200726tdf097b1kcd0269cf11c53bf3@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1088 Lines: 27 (please don't top-post) On 20/08/07, Anand Jahagirdar wrote: > Hi > I think Its not worth to make it configurable just for one printk > statement. am i missing something? > I think you are missing the fact that there are lots of situations where users may hit the configured process limit without that being an indication of a fork bomb (or other) attack. This means that there will be many systems that will trigger your warning where there really is no problem. That's a good reason for a) making the message KERN_INFO and b) let administrators somehow disable it completely. Personally I'm wondering if we even want/need this at all. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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/