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From: "Ollie Wild" <aaw@google.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Removing MAX_ARG_PAGES (request for comments/assistance)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:13:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <65dd6fd50610111013t6c783f3esc038c64abbcddeb0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160553621.3000.355.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

> on first sight it looks like you pin the entire userspace buffer at the
> same time (but I can misread the code; this stuff is a bit of a
> spaghetti by nature); that would be a DoS scenario if true...

I'm not sure I understand.  Could you please elaborate?

Thanks,
Ollie

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-11 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-11  0:05 Ollie Wild
2006-10-11  8:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-11 17:13   ` Ollie Wild [this message]
2006-10-11 13:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-10-11 21:48   ` Ollie Wild
2006-10-24 17:48     ` Ollie Wild
2006-12-29 20:03       ` [patch] remove MAX_ARG_PAGES Ingo Molnar
2006-12-29 20:49         ` Russell King
2006-12-29 21:23           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-29 22:20             ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-29 21:57           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-01  6:51         ` Ollie Wild
2007-01-01  6:58         ` Ollie Wild
2007-01-01 17:28         ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-02 18:18       ` David Howells
2007-01-02 17:52 ` Removing MAX_ARG_PAGES (request for comments/assistance) David Howells

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