From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:08:25 +0200 From: Wichert Akkerman Subject: Re: Running out of memory in 1 easy step Message-ID: <20000914180825.B19822@liacs.nl> References: <20000914145904.B18741@liacs.nl> <20000914175633.A7675@fred.muc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs" In-Reply-To: <20000914175633.A7675@fred.muc.de>; from ak@muc.de on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 05:56:33PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, riel@conectiva.com.br List-ID: --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 _________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@liacs.nl http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D | --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia iQB1AwUBOcD3+ajZR/ntlUftAQGVzwL/eeBQkPtLb04+hRtqd8hM5/KvuHxeJC5A +fEVaeLHj6Y51VlCoyE7jMcvtyRf9G6Dmfp7VdlmyP3X+DPgyR3/6BT1PFn0QcWy gpV4bs/586DkCKJ3DAq/EQ/nUWSG817q =QzoJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs-- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/