From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@soil.nl>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, riel@conectiva.com.br
Subject: Re: Running out of memory in 1 easy step
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:08:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000914180825.B19822@liacs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000914175633.A7675@fred.muc.de>; from ak@muc.de on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 05:56:33PM +0200
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Previously Andi Kleen wrote:
> There is a hardwired limit of 1024 vmas/process. This is to avoid denial
> of service attacks with attackers using up all memory with vmas.
That's trivial to circumvent using multiple processes or even threads which
makes it a useless and possibly damaging protection imho..
Wichert.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-14 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-14 12:59 Wichert Akkerman
2000-09-14 15:56 ` Andi Kleen
2000-09-14 16:08 ` Wichert Akkerman [this message]
2000-09-14 18:43 ` Andi Kleen
2000-09-14 19:20 ` Wichert Akkerman
2000-09-14 23:03 ` Mark Hahn
2000-09-15 13:22 Mark_H_Johnson
2000-09-15 16:35 ` Mark Hahn
2000-09-15 16:53 Mark_H_Johnson
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