Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754254Ab0KWXZe (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:25:34 -0500 Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:41792 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752324Ab0KWXZd convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:25:33 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=phrMzMKKCNasP2hBALsdZaWgI0ckiN89/Eh6eY2cZGD24nmgszxhSM5iU3kT6gNsyb PnIr6BCb+mX/diNY6qNEZzU11V+vzJ8mkFi0qiJE10Znhl51k/EILJcfK78U8A4fFZDJ n+7rsX5kerbl+XWwujWylrsm+BZjlHvUfl2q8= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1290553918.2866.80.camel@edumazet-laptop> References: <1290553918.2866.80.camel@edumazet-laptop> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:25:32 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Unix socket local DOS (OOM) From: Vegard Nossum To: Eric Dumazet Cc: David Miller , LKML , Andrew Morton , Eugene Teo , netdev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 964 Lines: 26 On 24 November 2010 00:11, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Le mardi 23 novembre 2010 à 23:21 +0100, Vegard Nossum a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> I found this program lying around on my laptop. It kills my box >> (2.6.35) instantly by consuming a lot of memory (allocated by the >> kernel, so the process doesn't get killed by the OOM killer). As far >> as I can tell, the memory isn't being freed when the program exits >> either. Maybe it will eventually get cleaned up the UNIX socket >> garbage collector thing, but in that case it doesn't get called >> quickly enough to save my machine at least. > > Hi Vegard > > Do you have a patch to correct this problem ? No, sorry, I didn't look into it. Vegard -- 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/