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Re: [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately trigger OOM-killer

From: Solar Designer <solar () openwall com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:53:04 +0400

Brad, Roland -

Thank you for your comments and your work on this.

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 06:08:47PM -0400, Brad Spengler wrote:

There shouldn't be any additional risk from adding the extra rescheds, 
as copy_*_user can already sleep and be raced against via a number of 
methods.


Agreed.

Alexander

Current thread:

[PATCH] move cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct, (continued)
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    - [PATCH] move cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct KOSAKI Motohiro (Sep 10)
    - Re: [PATCH] move cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct Oleg Nesterov (Sep 10)
    - Re: [PATCH] move cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct KOSAKI Motohiro (Sep 15)
    - [PATCH 2/2] execve: check the VM has enough memory at first KOSAKI Motohiro (Sep 09)
    - Re: [PATCH 2/2] execve: check the VM has enough memory at first Linus Torvalds (Sep 10)
    - Re: [PATCH 2/2] execve: check the VM has enough memory at first KOSAKI Motohiro (Sep 13)
    - Re: [PATCH 2/2] execve: check the VM has enough memory at first KOSAKI Motohiro (Sep 15)
    - Re: [PATCH 2/2] execve: check the VM has enough memory at first Linus Torvalds (Sep 16)
    - Re: [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately trigger OOM-killer Solar Designer (Aug 30)
    - Re: [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately trigger OOM-killer Brad Spengler (Aug 30)
    - Re: [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately trigger OOM-killer Solar Designer (Aug 31)
    - Re: [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately triggerOOM-killer Tetsuo Handa (Aug 31)