Re: CVE request: kernel: mm: mem allocated invisible to oom_kill() when not attached to any threads

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

Please use CVE-2010-4243

Thanks.

-- 
    JB


----- "Eugene Teo" <eugene () redhat com> wrote:

> This is the OOM dodging issue that can be triggered with Brad's 
> reproducer at http://grsecurity.net/~spender/64bit_dos.c. Written
> in the comments: "The second bug here is that the memory usage
> explodes 
> within the kernel from a single 128k allocation in userland The 
> explosion of memory isn't accounted for by any task so it won't be 
> terminated by the OOM killer."
>
> I don't recall seeing a CVE name assigned to this, so please assign
> one. 
> Upstream is still attempting to fix this.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625688#c0
>
> Thanks, Eugene